Jack’s
Winning Words 1/5/18
“If you’re
around 50, you’re called: Generation Grumpy.”
(KingNews) I recently watched “Grumpy Old Men” with my
granddaughter. She’d never seen it
before, and we laughed together (probably at different things). There’s a generation gap. Grumpy can be funny at times, and also
irritating. We all have to share the
same world, and it’s been my experience that living becomes more enjoyable when
I try to learn from generations different from mine. ;-)
Jack
FROM TAMPA SHIRL: Yes it is an amazing world on which we live with all of the electronic changes ====JACK: My new TV wasn't working properly. A "younger generation" person stopped by, called a friend on her iPhone, and after a brief conversation and the push of a couple of buttons on the clicker it was working perfectly. I still use a flip phone.====SHIRL: I got my first iPhone in 2007 for 99 cents and am now on my third one====JACK: ...and I thought that you were a Florida Fogie.
FROM TRIHARDER: I'm enjoying being a curmudgeon.====JACK: I've passed that stage. Now, I'm just a sweet old grandpa. "Here, let me help you with that. We don't want you yo hurt yourself!" ====TH: When a young person stops to open a door open for me, I say, "get your ass in there or I'll kick it."====JACK: You remind me of that old guy in the Jimmy John's TV commercial..."What took you so long?"====TH: OK, I gotta draw a line ...
FROM TARMART REV: God advice, Jack, as always!!====JACK: Have you reached the point of doing more teaching than learning?====REV: Still a student, really . . . stronger as "foot soldier" out in the field receiving commands and putting the teaching to good use, hopefully.====JACK: Do you ever stop being nice? I'll have to ask your wife. ====REV: Now, you are getting tooooo personal?!?!====JACK: It takes one to know one.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: I’d move the age back a little... to 80 maybe. But it did make me laugh. We haven’t seen the movie but I guess we should! Any movies that make me laugh are the kinds I want to see...none of those grumpy old movies!!!====JACK: Beneath the "grumpy" exterior of some people lies a heart of gold. I even know some pastors like that.
FROM KANSAN DON: Very good!! and Amen! Sometimes I’m slow to learn.====JACK: I paid attention when my TV was being fixed. I used that "knowledge" this afternoon. Hooray!
FROM BLAZING OAKS: "Grumpy Old Men" with those seasoned two actors was a riot' My kids thought it was funny; don't know about gkids, tho! I'm living with 4 generations in my family, and indeed our worlds are very different, but the Love transcends that! Reminds me of the story of the grandma getting help on the computer from a bright 11 year old and him (after fixing the problem)
called it an Idtent problem. Told her to write it out;, when she questions what that was, and she'd understand, so she did: Id10T. She did feel like an idiot!!====JACK: Mary would not allow our children to refer to anyone as an idiot. She might have allowed Idtent.
FROM AW IN ILLINOIS: The older I get, the more I feel privileged to feel that way.====JACK: What makes you grumpy? Trumpy?
FROM TAMPA SHIRL: Yes it is an amazing world on which we live with all of the electronic changes ====JACK: My new TV wasn't working properly. A "younger generation" person stopped by, called a friend on her iPhone, and after a brief conversation and the push of a couple of buttons on the clicker it was working perfectly. I still use a flip phone.====SHIRL: I got my first iPhone in 2007 for 99 cents and am now on my third one====JACK: ...and I thought that you were a Florida Fogie.
FROM TRIHARDER: I'm enjoying being a curmudgeon.====JACK: I've passed that stage. Now, I'm just a sweet old grandpa. "Here, let me help you with that. We don't want you yo hurt yourself!" ====TH: When a young person stops to open a door open for me, I say, "get your ass in there or I'll kick it."====JACK: You remind me of that old guy in the Jimmy John's TV commercial..."What took you so long?"====TH: OK, I gotta draw a line ...
FROM TARMART REV: God advice, Jack, as always!!====JACK: Have you reached the point of doing more teaching than learning?====REV: Still a student, really . . . stronger as "foot soldier" out in the field receiving commands and putting the teaching to good use, hopefully.====JACK: Do you ever stop being nice? I'll have to ask your wife. ====REV: Now, you are getting tooooo personal?!?!====JACK: It takes one to know one.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: I’d move the age back a little... to 80 maybe. But it did make me laugh. We haven’t seen the movie but I guess we should! Any movies that make me laugh are the kinds I want to see...none of those grumpy old movies!!!====JACK: Beneath the "grumpy" exterior of some people lies a heart of gold. I even know some pastors like that.
FROM KANSAN DON: Very good!! and Amen! Sometimes I’m slow to learn.====JACK: I paid attention when my TV was being fixed. I used that "knowledge" this afternoon. Hooray!
FROM BLAZING OAKS: "Grumpy Old Men" with those seasoned two actors was a riot' My kids thought it was funny; don't know about gkids, tho! I'm living with 4 generations in my family, and indeed our worlds are very different, but the Love transcends that! Reminds me of the story of the grandma getting help on the computer from a bright 11 year old and him (after fixing the problem)
called it an Idtent problem. Told her to write it out;, when she questions what that was, and she'd understand, so she did: Id10T. She did feel like an idiot!!====JACK: Mary would not allow our children to refer to anyone as an idiot. She might have allowed Idtent.
FROM AW IN ILLINOIS: The older I get, the more I feel privileged to feel that way.====JACK: What makes you grumpy? Trumpy?
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