A Sinking Feeling About This Generation

My wife and teenage daughters have just watched the movie ‘Titanic’. It was my daughter’s first time watching it. When the end credits start to roll…

Wife: “So, girls, what did you think?”

Teenager #1: “It was cute.”

Wife: “Cute?”

Teenager #1: “Yeah, too long, though. Also, the old lady confused me.”

My wife thinks she’s about to ask why Old Lady Rose threw the giant jewel into the water at the end, but no…

Teenager #2: “Yeah… who was she?!”

Wife: “She… she was Rose. She was Kate Winslet, but older.”

Teenager #1: “Whoooa! Why so old?”

Wife: “Because Titanic sank in 1912, and the movie is set… well… later.”

Teenager #2: “Yeah, but not that much later!”

Wife: “Uh, yeah! Titanic came out in the 1990s!”

Teenager #1: “Yeah! Anything that happened in the 1900s is all lumped together.”

Me: “Your mom and I were born in the 1970s! Does that mean we also experienced both World Wars, The Titanic, and watched man land on the moon?”

Teenager #2: “Well… maybe not the first world war…

Wife: *Standing up.* “If any of you need me, I’ll be upstairs decomposing…”