Asked to tell Gen Xers how much harder you had it in the old days: In my day, we didn't have no rocks. We had to go down to the creek and wash our clothes by beating them with our heads. In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated. In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.