So you don't get tiktok, well maybe your parents didn't get tamagotchi or the Rubik's cube

or lava lamps or heck the old hoop and stick game.

Generations may never see eye to eye, but on this week selected shorts they find common

ground.

I'm Meg Wallitzer, your Boomer host, stay with us.

You're listening to selected shorts, where our greatest actors transport us through the

magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

Before I committed fully to calling myself a Boomer, I decided to take one of those

online quizzes, and this one said something like, only baby boomers can pass this online

quiz, and not only did I pass, I got a 100.

And then the teacher called me up to her desk to give my test a star, which was in the

shape of a 1960s TV dinner for that extra Boomer feeling.

So if you need any dated references for your own short fiction, you know who to call.

When we say generation gap, we think about the ways the mores, customs, and social expectations

of one older group of people seem foreign to a younger group and vice versa.

The term which emerged in the 1960s often implies disapproval or amazement when I was

your age, or I can't believe you did that back then.

But between intimate relations, these gaps can reveal themselves in much subtler ways.

Love, hope, or disappointment might mix in with the usual sort of exasperation or disbelief.

When you see photos from previous generations in your family, often the young people look

sort of old and serious, and you think they're nothing like me.

It's because of their clothes and hairstyles, and sometimes it's just what a seepia tinge

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