George Hess

Feb 19

Grandfather: Are you STILL logged-on to that thing?
Grandchild: Grandpa nobody says "logged-on" anymore.
Grandfather: Back in my day you use to have to pay by the kilobyte to be logged on with those smart phones.
Grandchild: Grandpa nobody calls them "smart phones" anymore. They're just regular phones.
Grandfather: Well whatever, if you had to live just one day of my life when I was your age, you wouldn't take for granted that 3Z connection.
Grandchild: Just go back to reading your iPad Grandpa.

Son: Dad, when you were young, did you every try Napster?
Father: Well… to be honest with you son, yes. But it was new and there really weren't any laws against it yet. Also, no one knew about all of the side effects and viruses that it caused.
Son: Did you ever hack?
Father: Heh, can you keep a secret? I once hacked into the local library's email. I sent out a fake message from their account to their ENTIRE email list!
Son: You did! What did it say?
Father: Ehemm, uh, nothing, forget about it.
Son: That's awesome! Can you teach me?
Father: No! It was stupid and reckless and I never should have done it!

Daughter: I can't believe you! You're such a hypocrite!
Father: Sweetheart, calm down. I'm just trying to protect you.
Daughter: But YOU were in chat rooms when YOU were my age.
Father: It was a different time. Everyone was doing it. Now they're just full of creeps.
Daughter: When was the last time you logged into one, huh?
Father: Well, it's been a long time.
Daughter: Seeeee, you don't even know what it's like!
Father: I know enough to know that I don't want my teenage daughter getting chatted up by some creepy 40 year old stalker posing as a Justin Bieber look-a-like!
Daughter: If you took any time to meet my online friends you'd know that's not what they're like. And who's Just Bieber anyway?

The cold hard truth.

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