Millennials Are Sharing Phrases They Heard All The Time As Kids, But Gen Alpha Will Never Be Told

My grandparents were appalled my parents couldn’t use a record player; they in turn were horrified I had no idea how a landline works. 

And now, I find myself shocked to think that Gen Alpha have never snapped a flip phone shut to end a call (so satisfying) or wriggled an earphone cord to hear the glitching music properly.

But generational gaps aren’t just technological, as u/momentpersonality illustrated. 

In a post shared to r/AskReddit, the site user asked: “Millennials: what is a phrase that you would never hear today but that we heard constantly as children?” 

Here are some of the most-upvoted responses:

1) Smoking or non-smoking?

TooManyCarsandCats

2) “Get off the Internet, I need to make a phone call.”

u/Mountain-Brew

3) “Don’t forget to sign my guestbook.”

“I’m going to need to give my website’s hit counter its own frame.”

u/Tommytraddles

4) “Be kind, rewind!”

u/Odd_Ad2973

5) “Talk to the hand ’cause face ain’t listening.”

u/Gold_Clipper

6) “All that and a bag of chips.”

u/BaldRooshin

7) “Call after 9pm when it’s free!”

u/No-Remove-9984

8) “Did you remember to print the directions to our destination?”

u/Fabulous-Garden-8088

9) “Boomshakalaka.”

u/fatbackwood

10) “The number one reasoning for learning maths was always ‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket everywhere you go.’” 

u/Grievuuz

11) “Hay is for horses.”

u/magicrowantree

12) “This is an A and B conversation, so C your way out of it.”

u/leadmetothegarden_

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