Dear Baby Boomers:

Please come back.  We’ll be Good. We Promise. 

1. Yes, we promise, there will be no more careless spending; Family iPods, laptops, desktops, BlackBerry(R)s, Mini DVD players for the car and a home theater will do.

We can work with that.

2. Okay, there will be no more bragging about our new cars, jewelry, exotic trips or how smart our kids are.

3. Right, no more dropping our adult life responsibilities so we can taxi our children from hither to dale for their soccer, ballet, piano, violin, Latin, diving, swimming, and or tennis lessons. (They can play in the yard and make toys out of dirt and sticks like you did).  We’re not sure we can agree to allowing them to climb a fence or tree because that could be a serious liability.  Perhaps we can have them sign a waiver so they can’t turn around and sue us. Let’s table that line item for now.

4. Yes, we’ll start recycling, (almost, most of the time).

5. Yes, we’ll stop reading our email and texting people when we’re with you. 

6. We promise to stop using the word “deal” when we mean transaction, we’ll take the flashing earpiece out of our ears and we won’t answer the phone when you’re in our presence and say things like “hold on, I have to take this… it’s important” – like you’re not.

Anything else??

7. Right, no more acronyms in our emails.  LOL will now be “laugh out loud” or better yet, if we write something funny, we agree it should stand alone and make one laugh without the need to direct the emotion of the reader. 

Whatdaya say?  Will you do business with us again?

Sincerely,

Gen’s. X & Y. (oops, I mean, Generations X and Y).

July 24th, 2009