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cactuswatcher) wrote2020-11-28 06:54 am
cactuswatcher) wrote2020-11-28 06:54 am
Thanksgiving Zoom
I had a nice chat with a number of relatives and few relatives of relatives on Thanksgiving. A couple of odd things cropped up.
Generation gap: One of my great nieces piped up and said she and her husband-to-be had bought a VR, and started in on how they enjoyed it. Her siblings knew what she was talking about, but her two aunts in the conversation (not related to me) looked puzzled and a few seconds later one of them asked what a VR was. The young woman quickly responded, "Virtual Reality." Maybe she if she'd added the word "headset" her aunts might have half-way understood. But the aunts were still baffled, and the young woman just repeated, "Virtual Reality" as if that was was plenty of explanation. Her siblings weren't much more helpful. I injected, "It's a 3D game." The aunts said "Oh!" loudly and instantly understood. Millennials and Gen X, what can I say?
Brilliancy prize: Another of the great nieces responded that she had one to a prompt to the group to tell something unusual that happened during COVID-19. She was laughing about it, but I can't imagine she was laughing when it happened. Her husband was cleaning his gun. Yes, I know, it's almost obvious that he shot himself. But he did it as he was reassembling the gun. Let's see, he didn't make sure the gun was unloaded before he started. Then he took it apart and cleaned it, at which point he must have known there were bullets in the system. Then he carelessly put it back together with his hand in front of the muzzle. It wasn't me, but one of the relatives spoke up and said, "Maybe he ought to get rid of the thing." I'm just thankful his stupidity didn't accidentally kill his wife, my great niece!
Generation gap: One of my great nieces piped up and said she and her husband-to-be had bought a VR, and started in on how they enjoyed it. Her siblings knew what she was talking about, but her two aunts in the conversation (not related to me) looked puzzled and a few seconds later one of them asked what a VR was. The young woman quickly responded, "Virtual Reality." Maybe she if she'd added the word "headset" her aunts might have half-way understood. But the aunts were still baffled, and the young woman just repeated, "Virtual Reality" as if that was was plenty of explanation. Her siblings weren't much more helpful. I injected, "It's a 3D game." The aunts said "Oh!" loudly and instantly understood. Millennials and Gen X, what can I say?
Brilliancy prize: Another of the great nieces responded that she had one to a prompt to the group to tell something unusual that happened during COVID-19. She was laughing about it, but I can't imagine she was laughing when it happened. Her husband was cleaning his gun. Yes, I know, it's almost obvious that he shot himself. But he did it as he was reassembling the gun. Let's see, he didn't make sure the gun was unloaded before he started. Then he took it apart and cleaned it, at which point he must have known there were bullets in the system. Then he carelessly put it back together with his hand in front of the muzzle. It wasn't me, but one of the relatives spoke up and said, "Maybe he ought to get rid of the thing." I'm just thankful his stupidity didn't accidentally kill his wife, my great niece!