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Kelly Barnes's avatar

😈

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MSO's avatar

Fun read and great info! Thanks

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Lisa-Marie Cabrelli, Ph.D.'s avatar

I actually just sent a thumbs up to a message from my daughter's ex when he said "give her my best." I meant the thumbs up literally, but if he thought I was being sarcastic (or couldn't tell) I now feel like a subversive genius! My Gen X powers will defeat you!

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Mark Calahan's avatar

Hahahah, I’m 65. I used to text (still do) in CAPS. Or not. It didn’t matter to me. If the caps lock key was engaged, the CAPS it was. I wasn’t about to go back and replace the CAPS with lower case.

stop shouting, my sons would text back. What? Who is shouting? I was commenting about the baseball game. caps mean shouting. it’s agro WHAT? THAT’S dumb … damn fool kids these days

My nickname is now CAPS amongst my sons and their friends …

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

Hysterical! Caps! Love it.

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USA  STRONG's avatar

Boomer here, and I hate ordering Pizza’s!😆

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

This is fascinating!

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helen shardray's avatar

This really scares me. We are building a Tower of Babel to separate the genrations

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

Truly.

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Sunset Thunder's avatar

Regarding GenX not making phone calls, I’m a 74 year old Boomer and I have never liked to make phone calls. Never as a kid, never as a teen, never in my business career. I even took a job that involved phone sales to try to get over my phobia, but I didn’t last long doing it. (I’d have been fired by Alec Baldwin first thing!) Unless it’s close friends or family, I much prefer to text (iMessenger or WhatsApp) or, god forbid, email! :shudder:

Oh, I don’t fight two spaces after a period. It was drummed into me by fMiss Farnsworth the typing teacher 60 odd years ago and I ain’t changing now!

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Ahmed’s Stack of Subs's avatar

“Two pieces of punctuation”

three. comma. apostrophe. period. not counting the quotation marks since they probably weren’t in the original text.

😇😅

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

Awesome attention to detail. Thanks!

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TruthTeller's avatar

And, you even added punctuation to Agressive Much?! That'll really show them! :-)

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lsgv's avatar

Made my day! I’m a boomer with a gen—Z son and I can relate to each and every anecdote you made. Thing is, I’m the one that knows how the internet works, how to setup a router and WiFi, etc., and best of all, how to start the lawn mower.

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John Andersen's avatar

I’m in your age range, just a little older. But I had kids young. Way too young. It was a challenge. Now they are all out of the house and I have some grandchildren around the age of your children. What used to be so annoying as a parent is now uproariously funny watching my kids have to deal with this mess. There’s lots of quotes that begin with “The best revenge is…” but none of them compare with watching your own kids having to go through the pure hell they put you through. The look of bafflement warms the cockles of my soul.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

I will cherish every moment! (And try to babysit in small doses)

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John Andersen's avatar

We tell our kids, as far as we are concerned, the grandkids are perfect and we will not abide any defamatory remarks about them. That way we get to see our adult kids give us the same disgusted looks we got when they were teens. All good fun.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

Please, God, reward my restraint with grandkids in a decade!

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Jeff Scott's avatar

And...for the love of everything holy...CLEAR YOUR EFFING VOICEMAIL!

I want to leave you a message on principle.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

YESSSSS!!!!

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Noel Carlson's avatar

I'm right on the line between GenX and Millennial and I once reacted to an acquaintance's text with a thumbs up. I'm still traumatized by the fallout.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

YIKES!! 😳

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ReadingNika's avatar

I purposely text in complete sentences using all the SAT words I can in Jane Austen sentence structure, using semi-colons, periods, and commas.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

Rebel with a [dependent] clause.

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Mike Volpe's avatar

I make my kids talk to the cashier and place their own orders when we get fast food. They get so nervous even with me standing there. And I’ll keep doing until they’re confident.

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tennvol's avatar

Hilarious! I admit, I got pissed off at her "aggressive much" response. What people have never understood about GenX is that we generally are laid back until you cross us. Because at that point, we will pull up the mental catalog of the things that get under your skin the most and retaliate mercilessly. It's our superpower.

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

It really is. We’re feral!

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