Channel 10 are about to release a show called Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation.
Ho Hum.
I live the dream... I wasn’t even starting to collect the non-stop gold that fell from my GenY’s mouths seriously, until recently. I rue the loss of what has gone unrecorded, but some recent favourites are below.
(And no; you can’t make this shit up.)
1) Overheard claim to have the biggest, and therefore best, bonsai tree.
2) A report that mum was angry at brother for cluttering up living room with air-guitars.
3) “The Moon is overrated.”
4) Had following exchange with me:
- My Goddamn dry-cleaner is stealing the buttons from the end of my shirts.
- When you say ends, do you mean the spare buttons sewn on the inside of the tails of the shirt?
- What? No! The ends here, near my hands. Look, I’ve got no buttons there.
- But… you’ve got disposable cufflinks halfway through some of the button holes.
- I know! Look! He takes my buttons and leaves it like this…
- Wait. Are you saying that your dry-cleaner is stealing your buttons, but replacing them with longer cuffs and four, carefully sewn button holes on each cuff?
- Yes!
- Let’s carefully examine the likelihood of what yo….
- Goddamnit this isn’t my shirt!
- I know.
- What the hell is going on?!
Heres 2 from my genY workmate.
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Having vacuumed the office she said "I hope it looks okay, I've never vacuumed before".
Me: (Trying to hide my astonishment/digust) "Does your Mum do the vacuuming"?
GenY: "I don't know, (pauses thoughtfully) I don't think any body does"
I pause, trying to frame a non offensive reply
GenY: (brightly) "Our house is so big it doesn't need vacuuming".
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I now try to limit my efforts at conversation to food. I'ts something we've got in common & I thought it would be safer. Here's an exert from one such convo.
GenY: " I just had an Orange, but I couldn't find a clean knife to quarter it".
I blink once and curve my lip in what hopefully looks like a supportive smile.
GenY: (Looking like she'd just split the atom) "So I peeled it by hand & ate it like that...& you know what"?
I raise my eyebrows askingly
GenY: (honestly surprised)"It still tasted pretty good".