Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things
Lisa writes: Yesterday, our Sunday School class of 9 and 10 year olds was talking about Christmas presents we're giving to our family. I said I was giving someone a little flashlight that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter.
Entire class simultaneously said, "What's a car cigarette lighter?"
As far as these kids know, that little plug has always been for charging cell phones and GPS units. I was tempted to march the whole gang out to Tom's car in the parking lot -- a 1993 Honda Civic with an honest-to-goodness cigarette lighter in the dashboard. And then they could watch him use the handcrank to start the engine, and then we could all take turns riding around in the rumble seat.
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. -- Douglas Adams
Entire class simultaneously said, "What's a car cigarette lighter?"
As far as these kids know, that little plug has always been for charging cell phones and GPS units. I was tempted to march the whole gang out to Tom's car in the parking lot -- a 1993 Honda Civic with an honest-to-goodness cigarette lighter in the dashboard. And then they could watch him use the handcrank to start the engine, and then we could all take turns riding around in the rumble seat.
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. -- Douglas Adams
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