The 2000 Year-Old Mother

I was sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office, watching a mother and her one-year-old-ish baby. The mother was trying to engage a ten-year-old-ish boy playing with a handheld video game in conversation.

"We didn't have those back when I was a kid," said the mother (who, it should be noted, was about my age).

"Mmmhm," said the boy.

"You know what we had? We had board games."

"Mmmhm."

"Um," said her husband. "We had Atari."

"Oh yeah," said the mother. "I guess we had Atari too."