The Fun Guy's Journal: 191.4 Mindset of the college freshman

I don't feel bad that incoming college freshman have never put a period after their state abbreviations, don't know what CCCP refers to and have never seen Michael Jackson when he wasn't a freakshow.

I'm a little bothered by the coincidence that they were born the year I graduated from college, but only a little. Such is life.

When their kids go off to college, not only will they not know what a Blockbuster Video is, they won't really understand the concept of DVD rentals. It could only be explained by analogy. "Telegram is to text message as DVD rental is to video-on-demand."

Progeny

[Shadow Wrought]

Their kids won't even understand the concept of televisions. Everything will be beamed directly into the ol' brainbox.

funny

[stoolpigeon]

I spent last week around a lot of recent graduates. early 20's types and when I was telling some of them about how my family would rent a vcr so we could watch the video tapes we had rented they couldn't get over it.

Telling them about my family all gathering around our first microwave to watch water boil in what seemed amazing time - they weren't as impressed. I think it was just too far outside their frame of reference.