“Brainy people make brainy quotes.” – That is my quote for the day!
This week I created four more brainy quotes for you:
- “I have learned that I have a lot to learn.”
- “The older I get the more I re-learn the same old thing each day.”
- “Teenagers know things Grandpa’s have yet to learn.”
- “Keep the Tech Dictionary open when you call Tech Support.”
I pondered on number three – the teenager thing. I grew up in a family of old Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. 
The outside world thought we Brubaker’s talked a little funny. Many of our own words and dialect were established in the 1700’s when my forefathers sailed from Germany. If the teenager in the family said “I am going to redd up the table for you.” Brother, Mother, and Grandpa all knew what was going to happen.
But, this week, I over heard two teenagers talking: “Set your ISO to a max of 2,000.” In the next 5 minutes these words were used: HDR “blinkies,” PhotoShop, mask tool, adjust the contrast, RGB, Lightroom, WordPress, Drop Box, white balance, RAW, TB storage, PSD file.
I am sure Brother understood the language and words, but Mother and Grandpa could only say:
“Oh my, what are they talking about?”
My brainy brain went on to say, “Ok Brubaker, do not brag about having a common language for all ages.” We Brubaker’s were not very adventuresome, so we did not deal with new things – We did not invent them and we did not use them – so all ages knew everything there was to know – no forward progress.
Non-Brubaker’s teenagers ran off to California, maybe smoked a little Pot, put a couple wires together – and wham, there was Apple, Microsoft, Drop Box, Google, IKEA, and Lord only know’s what else. Those non-Brubaker’s created a bunch of forward progress stuff and thus my quotes: “Teenagers know things Grandpa’s have yet to learn.” and “Keep the Tech Dictionary open when you call their Tech Support.”
Lets go back 40,000 years. 
That cave was nice but the the teenage lovers said “This cave is getting crowded and so are all the other caves in the mountain.” Maybe those teenagers went to the California of the day and thought about this situation. She turned to him and said “I bet we could build a cave” He said “How do we do that?” She said “I will go get a bunch of women together, We will all march and carry banners that say “Get out of the way, we women have a house – I mean a cave – to build.” They marched because they knew they were not equal – they were Superior!
That, my friend, is how the first house was build. It was the beginning of a dictionary of new words – Windows, Doors, Mortgages, Chimneys, Real estate offices, Zillow, Multi-listings, Real estate Taxes, Condominiums, and city.
Soon Grandpas were saying “Oh my, what is she talking about?” “What is a city?”
That is not the end of the story. Grandpas of the future will always be saying “Oh my, what is she talking about?”
I sure wish I could stay around to see it all. It will not be long until they will figure out how to keep us living forever. Maybe my Great Grandchildren will get to say at age 280 (the new age to be called Grandpa or Grandma) “Oh my, what is she talking about?”
One more TXT word – QED (In texting on your i-phone, it is a Latin phrase “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” or “It has been proved.”
I say QED.
We Grandpas, regardless of our age, will always say “Oh my, what is she talking about?”
Hope that all was LOL.
THE END
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