Down With The Kids

SO it was my first day back in school. In the 500-odd freshie Chemistry class this morning I was the oldest person by far. I bet they thought I was working for “The Man”. Or that I was perhaps “The Man”. Maybe these days “The Man” is in fact “The Person”, or “The Gender Unspecified”?

At any rate, one big difference I noticed between lectures now and way back then is that in the old days when people got out they would spend some time hanging around, chatting, making friends, all that annoying stuff. Now they can all just get out and straight onto their mobile phones and avoid that damn socializing. Many if not most of the people exiting class walked away quickly in little cell phone auto-chat bubbles.