A big mouth college student challenged a senior citizen saying it was impossible for their generation to understand his world. "You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers, the internet…"
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Taking advantage of a pause in the student’s litany, the senior said, "You’re right, Sonny. We didn’t have those things when we were young… So we invented them!"