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[Evie2004]

I am going to try my best to be PC here, so bear with me..our oldest granddaughter is just 13 & is smart, adorable, polite, you know the rest..not any experience with teenage girls just yet (we have sons) I think I just met my first member of generation z, a few days ago. I was at the counter of a very busy local ice cream store, while I was next to her, she requested samples of several different flavors, when she finally decided, the server asked her, cup or cone? She acted like she didn't understand him & since I was standing RIGHT IN FRONT of a little cone display, I TRIED to make eye contact with her & tried to show her the  choices, actually I tried it twice..she totally ignored me! She was probably 14-15 years old..do I have the correct generation? Like my body mass was not physically there! As far as the PC comment I mentioned, I better skip it, BUT, if this is the next seemingly- entitled generation around here, I'm going to have lots of fun in the coming years..& praying my granddaughters don't act like this in public! 

BTW, I am proud to be a boomer & my husband & I aren't old YET!!!

[Noel7]

This does not sound like entitlement to me.  I assume she didn't understand him, maybe she didn't know you could get ice cream in a cup, or maybe she didn't hear him correctly, or maybe she has a developmental issue.

[RoughDraft]

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@Noel7 wrote:

This does not sound like entitlement to me.  I assume she didn't understand him, maybe she didn't know you could get ice cream in a cup, or maybe she didn't hear him correctly, or maybe she has a developmental issue.

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@Noel7 The same thought entered my mind.

[Evie2004]

she understood perfectly

[Marp]

She acted like she didn't understand him & since I was standing RIGHT IN FRONT of a little cone display, I TRIED to make eye contact with her & tried to show her the  choices, actually I tried it twice.

Perhaps your attempt to make eye contact instead of speaking up and saying something like "let me move out of your way so you can see the cones" would have garnered a different reaction.  With you just trying to make eye contact she may have thought you were the female equivalent of a "lecherous old coot".

[Noel7]

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@Evie2004 wrote:

she understood perfectly

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I don't know how you would know, but how did it end?  Did she finally choose? 

As an aside, at about 14 I probably wouldn't have acknowledged a nearby adult staring at me either.

[Evie2004]

wow, lecherous old coot, just wow!

At her estimated age, if she is afraid to respond to this type of communication, I feel sorry for her! I would understand if she was a toddler.. My question was more about this young generation, as our granddaughter is approaching that age..

she was still there as I walked away to enjoy our ( with husband) turtle sundaes!

[mom2four0418]

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@Evie2004 wrote:

I am going to try my best to be PC here, so bear with me..our oldest granddaughter is just 13 & is smart, adorable, polite, you know the rest..not any experience with teenage girls just yet (we have sons) I think I just met my first member of generation z, a few days ago. I was at the counter of a very busy local ice cream store, while I was next to her, she requested samples of several different flavors, when she finally decided, the server asked her, cup or cone? She acted like she didn't understand him & since I was standing RIGHT IN FRONT of a little cone display, I TRIED to make eye contact with her & tried to show her the  choices, actually I tried it twice..she totally ignored me! She was probably 14-15 years old..do I have the correct generation? Like my body mass was not physically there! As far as the PC comment I mentioned, I better skip it, BUT, if this is the next seemingly- entitled generation around here, I'm going to have lots of fun in the coming years..& praying my granddaughters don't act like this in public! 

BTW, I am proud to be a boomer & my husband & I aren't old YET!!!

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Generation Name	Births Start	Births End	Youngest Age Today*	Oldest Age Today*
The Lost Generation - The Generation of 1914	1890	1915	102	127
The Interbellum Generation	1901	1913	104	116
The Greatest Generation	1910	1924	93	107
The Silent Generation	1925	1945	72	92
Baby Boomer Generation	1946	1964	53	71
Generation X (Baby Bust)	1965	1979	38	52
Generation Y -  The Millennial -  Gen Next	1980	1995	22	37
Generation Z	1996	2010	7	21
Gen Alpha	2011	2025	1	6

[Noel7]

Thanks @mom2four0418 !

Lots of good data

[MickD]

Was there a noticeable eyeroll?  My son is 17 and he's a good kid, so I don't worry about other's kids.  Just focus on your own brood.