old ladies and "thongs"

So yesterday I was in the back mail room at work and in walks one of the sweet older ladies who has worked in the admissions office since she was born. (White hair, beige slacks and a cardigan everyday of the year-- the whole nine yards.) She starts talking to me as she makes the morning coffee-- somehow we get on the topic of how the world has changed since she was young. "Even the words are different!" she exclaims "Last year I was talking to my grandkids and it was one of those real cold spots of winter. I said to my grandkids, 'I just don't understand it-- all those IWU kids running around campus in their thongs!' My grandkids said to me 'Grandma, how would you know they are wearing their thongs?' I said to them, 'Well, I see them! They are all running around in them just as plain as day!' My grandkids said back, 'Grandma, they wouldn't be running around with just their thongs!' I kept insisting that they were until my daughter steps in and explained that when I said thong I meant flip-flop and when they said thong they meant that fancy new underwear. I don't want to turn into a grouchy old lady but I even need a translator these days!"

i love older people so much.

::ordinary day, Extraordinary God::