(Walking the neighborhood)

Me: O hey there are other houses here with flagpoles. I guess I can get one for my house too and no one will mind.

Grandboy (adamant): GRANDPA. Even if no one else has a flagpole that shouldn’t stop you from getting one if it’s nice and you like it. Are you going to do what everyone else does, or what you need to do?!?

Me: Haha, you’re right. You’ve been talking to your momma again, huh, boy?

Grandboy: AUUUUGH DON’T DO WHAT I DID

Me: What did you do?

Grandboy (wiping his face): I blew into this can of powdered candy. The powder comes out and all over EVERYTHING

Me: Heh I’ve done that before.

Grandboy: Really? You’ve done something dumb before?

Me: O yes I have. Don’t forget to wipe up that mess, boy.

Boy on video: I won’t shut up, YOU shut up!

Grandboy (looks sideways to mamasan): Hey mom he said…

Mamasan: (THE LOOK)

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Some things are best left unsaid

Grandboy (playing a video game where he can ride a dinosaur): Grandpa, dinosaurs were a long time ago, right?

Me: Yep. Long time ago.

Grandboy: I feel like, if I would have been born in the 80s I might have seen dinosaurs then, right, grandpa?

Me: Ayep may have been. You could never tell in the 80s.

Grandboy (scrolling through images of the USS Titanic sinking): Wow Gwumpa those are sad pictures. Whoever took them must have been brave.

Me: O no, these aren’t pictures. They are paintings. 

Grandboy: What? (scrolling) Where are the photos from people who were there?

Me: They didn’t have mobile phones then. The paintings are made from descriptions of what happened.

Grandboy (processing this new information): No cell phones. That’s a hard life, Gwumpa.

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Yep, grandboy, it was. And your grandchildren will wonder how life was possible before spinal implant networking, back when people drove their own vehicles and even owned them as well.