Speaking in tongues

Perhaps if you’d said ‘Em...like fings what you wear at night, like, to go to bed in like’ ???

Last month, I baked a cake to enter in the local farmshop's Apple Day competition. I thought it would be nice to present it on a paper doily so popped into the pound shop.

"What's a doily?" asked the teenage assistant.
"A lacy paper circle you put on a plate under a cake."
Puzzled look as he pulled out his phone.
"How do you spell that?"
"DOILY"
Pause while he Googled images ...
"Oh, yeah, I know. Come with me. I wondered what they were for."

I left with my doilies but feeling rather old. It could have been worse. Antimacassars.

Nor sure that would work Anja I've seen more than one person shopping in pyjamas and slippers.

Oakleaf - for your earlier post (at 18.44).

Soon people will be saying "What's a fax?"

"I've seen more than one person shopping in pyjamas and slippers."
Especially if they shop in the middle of the night.
Our big Tesco is open nearly 24/7 ( apart for Sat. night).
Yesterday morning the poor girl at the till was nearly falling asleep. She said she'd been on since 5am.

Soon people will be saying "What's a fax?"

I wondered why I hadn't received a hospital appointment so 5 weeks lagter I rang the GP who assured me they had sent off a fax and marked it as urgent.

I rang the clinic and they don't receive faxes.

Have you heard of the four levels of consciousness, Don’taskme? She was at the lowest stage, unconscious incompetence.

I'm thinking that our forbears were more intelligent than some " academics " today for all their education and technology.
Many of those who are elderly are well-versed in most things which can only come from the teachings of our parents and past relations ?