It’s the great folly of youth, thinking when we’re young that we know so much more than older people. Since the beginning of time, the younger generations have been dismissive of the wisdom of the older generations. To be fair, though, older generations are often disdainful of the foolishness of young people. Recently, the “OK Boomer” trend got national attention when people become outraged that young people would be so disrespectful. Here’s what people forgot to mention, though. This got started because older people on Twitter started the hashtag #HowToConfuseAMillennial. The older folks weren’t amused when the Millennials took over the hashtag. The mistake of the older folks was to try to own the younger generation on a platform that was native to them. It was doomed to failure from the start. For the most part, however, with age comes wisdom, and that is clearly illustrated in the joke below. This will crack you up, guaranteed.
An old man, who had been a retired farmer for a long time became very bored and decided to open a medical clinic, calling himself “Dr. Farmer.”
He put a sign up outside that said: “Get your treatment for $500 – if not cured get back $1,000.”
Doctor “Young,” who was positive that this old farmer didn’t know beans about medicine, thought this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000.
He went to Dr. Farmer’s clinic and this is what happened.
Dr. Young: “Dr. Farmer, I have lost all taste in my mouth. Can you please help me?
Dr. Farmer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr. Young’s mouth.”
Dr. Young: “Aaagh! This is Gasoline!”
Dr. Farmer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your taste back. That will be $500.”
Dr. Young gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days figuring to recover his money.
Dr. Young: “I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything.”
Dr. Farmer: “Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.”
Doctor Young: “Oh no you don’t, that’s Gasoline!”
Dr. Farmer: “Congratulations! You’ve got your memory back. That will be $500.”
Dr. Young (after having lost $1000) leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.
Dr. Young: “My eyesight has become weak I can hardly see!”
Dr. Farmer: “Well, I don’t have any medicine for that so. Here’s your $1000 back.”
Dr. Young: “But this is only $500…”
Dr. Farmer: “Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be $500.”
Moral of the story: Just because you’re “Young” doesn’t mean that you can outsmart an old farmer.
