On 8/13/2017 10:59 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/12/2017 10:18 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sat 12 Aug 2017 06:27:49p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:16:12 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> The baby boomers are no longer relevant as far as tracking
>>>>>> trends goes. How can they be? Mostly they wish to live in the
>>>>>> latter half of the 20th century - before all this "stuff"
>>>>>> happened. They reminisce while the rest of the world have moved
>>>>>> on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's mostly true of every generation.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, in 40 years dsi2 will be saying the same thing.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think in 40 years he will be reminiscing about this newsgroup.
>>> ;-)
>
>> If he's lucky enough to have lived that long.
>
> My mother was a member of a senior center where they had all kinds
> of exercise classes, etc, and had a cheap lunch. She was 88 and
> felt left out because all the other seniors had smart phones they
> used for all kinds of things. I got her one, of course.
>
> Point is, all these pre baby boomers aren't necessarily sitting
> around thinking about the olden days. Plenty of them are with it
> and still curious so why should their next generation be any different.
>
> nancy

Exactly!

Jill