At 59 I'm oldest in my current team though not by much, next are 49 and 51. We have also several youngsters under 30 and three current/former apprentices who are 18-19.
I'm increasingly finding myself having to explain what to me are common cultural references. OK, dim as a Toc H lamp might belong with my father's generation but the dead parrot?
One of relative youngsters, 28, has just gone off on a ski holiday in Austria with her German boyfriend. Former apprentice, 19yo girl articulate and educated to at least GCSE level, then asks 'Is Austria near Germany'. Next door country says our skier. I enlarged with mention of Hitler's origins and cultural reference to The Sound of Music. This didn't get me beyond a vague recollection of Maria's opening scene - The Hills Are Alive etc. She'd simply no idea what i was on about.
Mind you the one who's gone skiing looked completely blank at my alluding, over staff resignations, to Lady Bracknell and To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.. She's an English Grad from University of Reading who you'd think might at least be on nodding terms with works of Wilde.
Does anyone else have this experiencing?
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 3 Mar 19 at 17:04
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