The day I got schooled by a message from a Millennial/Gen Z hybrid was a day like any other—except that day I was publicly reprimanded on TikTok, made worse that, and I could not understand most of it.
The message was simple: "Hey Boomer. Do you know that it is legit rude to actually just pick up the phone and call someone?"
Wait What??! I thought. Were they seriously telling me it was rude to call someone on the phone???
They were.
My reply, born from sheer bewilderment, was, "You know, that is what the phone is made for, right…to call people?" But then I got hit with: "Seriously, "dude, your Boomer Boner is low-key salty. It has no cap. It gives vibes of"a thirsty Karen."
Oh, the "humanity…and confusion.
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