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lagilmanSitting in Starbucks listening to a teenaged grandson try to explain the internet to his grandmother. Since she doesn't seem all too clear on the concept of "computer," it's not going all that well.
They've moved on to the differences between internet dating, soda shops-as-meeting-places, and matchmaking relatives/arranged marriages.
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Grandson: "In this case, it's the computer system acting as the parent,as the go-between."
Grandmother: "I guess you have to be very desperate to go through that."
Grandson: "Yeah okay, you have to be desperate. Right."
Grandmother: "It's a new thing. All right. It's a new thing."
*loves both of them*
They've moved on to the differences between internet dating, soda shops-as-meeting-places, and matchmaking relatives/arranged marriages.
(excerpted but otherwise word-for-word)
Grandson: "In this case, it's the computer system acting as the parent,as the go-between."
Grandmother: "I guess you have to be very desperate to go through that."
Grandson: "Yeah okay, you have to be desperate. Right."
Grandmother: "It's a new thing. All right. It's a new thing."
*loves both of them*
