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Can Your Teenager Change a Tire?
 

 
Can your teenager change a flat tire?  Or, for that matter, can you?  Alan May's post yesterday about marketing to generation Y got me thinking. (How's that for shiny Alan?)  I am a Baby Boomer (No, that doesn't mean that I'm overly fertile or virile, though some may argue with that, present company excluded).  It just means that I was born between 1946 and 1964.  I was actually born in January of 1964, so I guess that makes me the oldest of the last of the Baby Boomers.  Wow, that sounds terminal.  My youngest of three kids will be 18 next month.  He cannot change a flat tire.  Well, he can now, but he couldn't yesterday.  You see, I failed to teach him how to change a flat tire.  Not on purpose, only because I never had to. 
Last evening when my wife came home, she walked in the house and said "Michael, your left rear tire is flat."  (His real name is Beelzebub, but we call him Michael.)  My heart sank.  What would have happened if he'd had a flat while out on the road somewhere?  He would have been pathetic, sitting there on the side of ... more

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