Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for February 28, 2019

Tele.

Actually, I think that’s one of those words you shouldn’t use if you don’t want to sound old….

You know, if you’re trying to fool the whippersnappers into thinking you’re one of ’em….

or at least still cool.

(As if.)

“Telephone” must be on the list.

Apparently some kids don’t even recognise it…

they only know “phone.”

Some others, while I’m thinking about it, are more obvious: “tinfoil”, “Tupperware” unless you mean Tupperware™.

“Tin can”. “Sneakers.”

Even “record”, in the sense of music, is unrecognisable to a lot of young people.

Probably makes teenagers roll their eyes the way I did when my Mom called her purse a “pocketbook.”

Seriously, I do still have a landline.

And a smartphone.

I can talk on either… though I prefer talking on the land line.

But only the cellphone can also do e-mail, Google stuff, keep track of things, let me read books on it, or look at pictures, and even go on the comics.

I don’t know why people feel like they have to put that down.

The world in my pocket.

Its great. I feel lucky.