Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Who Knows How to Play Paper Football?

A large number of the guys on my project are in their early twenties. Despite the large gap in our age, I rarely consider them to be anything other than colleagues. Today, however, something happened that profoundly illustrated the difference between our generations.

The computer network (the Windows Domain Server) went down and we couldn't log onto our PCs to do our work. After hours of waiting, someone suggested that we play paper football to pass the time.

One of the guys in their twenties said, "Yeah, let's! How do you play?"

When I started to laugh, one of the other guys said, "Hey! We grew up playing Madden NFL; we don't know anything about paper football."

Know how to play jacks or to shoot marbles?