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When Old Age Attacks
"Scott? Do you know what this piece of tech is?"
It's "clean sweep" around here, the semi-annual effort of office services to de-pack-rat the biggest pack-rat organization on the planet.
So what this very nice, well, girl, dug out of the deep recesses of her desk was a rectangular box about the same size and shape as a matchbox. Has "Motorola" on it.
Me: "You don't know what this is?"
Her: "Ummm... no?"
Me: "How old are you?!?"
Her: "28"
Yes, folks, it would in fact appear that you must be over 30 to recognize a pager.
that's not true...i remember having a beeper before i had a cell phone.
btw- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Posted by: nina on May 1, 2009 10:52 AMYeah - so did I. However, considering I work with folks in their mid-20s and none of them have heard of Iron Maiden, it's not that surprising.
Posted by: ronaprhys on May 1, 2009 05:11 PMWhen I was in grad school, I was detailed to clean out a storage room that was needed for lab space. So I had a big cardboard box out in the hall, full of dirty glassware to be trashed. The chairman of the department happened by, stopped, pointed at a particularly ugly and dirty piece of glassware, and said, "Don't throw that out. It's the first electron microscope in the Western hemisphere."
I'm still not convinced he wasn't punking me.