My father, a retired factory worker, keeps reminiscing about the "good 'ol days" of his younger years.
Then without skipping a beat, he'll say something like, "but it really isn't so bad nowadays."
Then he goes right back to how nice he had it as a teenager back in the 60's.
Then, right away it's back to the present, with "but technology today makes everything so much easier."
It's back and forth, back and forth from the present to the past, past to the present.
"You know dad," I finally told him, "you're nothing but a baby boomerang!"
Reaching the end of a j ob interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "And what starting salary are you looking for?"
The engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."
The interviewer inquires, "Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?"
The engineer sits up straight and says, "Wow! Are you kidding?"
The interviewer replies, "Yeah, but you started it."