Let's Let Elder Lie

I'm a boomer. I was born in 1947. If anybody refers to me as elderly or elder, they will get an earful in no uncertain terms.

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Paging Senator Craig

Airport bathrooms aren’t what they used to be. There was a time when you got off a flight and hustled to the first restroom you saw along with every other passenger. You rolled your suitcase in and looked for an empty stall and took care of your business.

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Old Dog Learns New Tricks

The world is changing inexorably, and as usual I am trying to keep up with it. I’ve been on vacation in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, glued to the computer...

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Generation X, Y, Z

I’m confused, and you can’t say that it’s because I’m a baby boomer and we’re all in a confused pre-Alzheimers state. I just heard that there is a new demographic known as Generation Z, AKA the Silent Generation, and I’m worried that they have run out of letters for the next generations.

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I’ll Be Right Back

You’ve probably heard the story of the man in New York City who told his wife he was just going out for a newspaper and it’s been twenty years since she last saw him. My reaction to the story has always hinged on the kind of people they were. I mean if he was a rotten bastard, then I say she’s been better off without him.

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We Drown Cellphones

You know how sometimes you just can’t face the reality of a bad situation because you caused it, and you can’t blame anyone else. My wife is going through this. She washed a pair of her pants with the cell phone in the pocket.

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I Want Candy

Seeing all those videos on YouTube with people adding Mentos candy to liters of Coke and Pepsi to turn them into literal pop rockets got me thinking again about the candy of my youth. Specifically, I got in the way back machine to the days when we thought if we put enough Fizzies in our mouth or some enclosed space and then added water, that it would be “more fun than a flood in a Fizzie factory.”

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