When you're old, what do you think children will ask you to tell stories about?

[pervertedjester]

Back in my day the only technology we left the house with was a clock we wore on our wrist.

Something funny, something educational or something random?

[BlueCoyote]

If my grandchildren will be anything like myself, they will probably ask me similar questions to the ones I used to ask my grandma: What was the world like when you were a child? Did you have flying cars and smart robots back then? What kind of food did you eat? What was school like when you were young? Was it very different from school today? How did you meet grandma? Why did you fall in love with her? What kind of political event shaped your way of thinking a lot and why? What were the happiest moments in your life and which ones were the saddest/toughest? What were our great great grandparents (so, basically my grandparents) like? Things like that.

My family has started a pretty cool tradition of writing down one's entire life as a book-long project but without the intention of publishing it. My grandma began this tradition about 4 years before she passed away. Originally, her memoirs were going to be +100 pages but unfortunately she couldn't finish them because she died in between. Still, we have about 50 pages and because she wrote her memories down in a chronological order, they are mostly about her childhood, her youth and her life until about age 40. For me, these are also the most interesting memories. My mom is only in her 60s but she has already begun to do the same thing and said she will add the last 20 years of her life in a diary-like way. My siblings and I will probably get to read this text after she passes away. I think that's such a cool idea. My older brother and I have already decided that we want to continue this tradition and do the same thing once we get into our 60s or 70s. How incredibly fascinating would it be to have memoirs of my great great grandma who was born during the early 1800s! I can't imagine all the interesting things she might have had to say to her descendants. Well, for my grandchildren, this might actually become a possibility because my grandma was born in 1923 and, if my estimates are correct, my grandchildren will probably be born around 2056, which means they'd be about old enough to read these memoirs by 2071. That would be a time gap of 148 years. Some of the things my grandma has written will probably make their heads explode. And if they continue the tradition, maybe some kid in the year 2360 will lie on their bed and read the crazy things I wrote about my childhood in the old millennium.

[JKaha]

TL;DR

[BlueCoyote]

@JKaha
I'm sorry, you have to spell that out for me. I'm too old to get all of these internet abbreviations.

[NearlyNapping]

I'm 62 and nobody has ever asked me to tell them a story. Young people generally aren't interested in that stuff. They live in the moment and don't care what some old fart did 50 years ago.

It's usually not until the "kids" are older themselves that they become interested in what their parents and grand parent's generation did. Both of my parents died over 12-15 years ago, and I wish I had asked more about their younger lives.

This reminds me of a video I saw just yesterday. This old guy was on Johnny Carson. He was the oldest working farmer in the state of Illinois at the time. I think he's 97 and he seems really healthy and alert, with a good sense of humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8-x3uOSqY

[Salmon4056]

They would ask me to create a random exicting story or what had happen after the last episode of the animated show I produced

[PinkChampagne]

How I met their father 😊 stories from my childhood

[GuyWhatRunsThePlace]

4chan. The original 4chan. I am an ancientfag, I am an progenitor of the end. I remember longcat and towercat. I remember Benjamin Franklin and Duck. Zero hour was my final hour. Then I'll show them 2D pictures of moot and I drinking bubbletea, videos of the panels at Otakon, and cry myself to sleep because y'all weeaboos closed the pool too many times.

[ZanyInternetName]

I don't know what type of stories I'll have to tell. Maybe something about my travels, or my time spent living abroad. These are really the only stories I have as of now, but I hope that it won't be the only ones I'd have to tell my grandchildren. Hopefully it wouldn't be, like my grandfather's stories, about "the war", but maybe about something like "that time you had a business" or such. Who knows? At the very worst I may just read from the brethren Grimm.

[Deathraider]

I'll tell them about the old day.

"Back in my days, they had something known as Snapcrack."

"You mean Snapchat grandpa? We learned it in history class."

"No. Snapcrack. These narcissistic addicts on Snapcrack. Now did I ever tell you about the Adpocalypse of YouTube?"

[BlueCoyote]

We may all be damned if Snapchat makes it into the history books, let alone history class.

[VincentLaw]

I'm still so young. Probably whatever this century's big wartime was like. That and technology, such as gas cars. Maybe what small-town Idaho was like before it became metropolitan

[TadCurious]

"Grandpa, please tell us the story again about how Girls Ask Guys was back in the early days! Did they REALLY used to give you a gift card for your Xper points?"

[pitzi]

Army... wars... at least I'd hope they'd ask about that! 😂

[JohnFrost]

about financial crisis and anything that changes in the past 80 years. Early days of the internet, pre-smartphone, And when the netherlands where twice as big. Tell them about the sunken city of amsterdam

[4yourpleasure]

I am old. Children don't ask as a rule. Unfortunate. Children in their 40's start to ask of their elders

[grayce131]

I usually ask my older relatives about the technology and the way people dressed when they were younger.

[JellyDonutguy96]

back in my dad,
young children

your grandmother would post topless photos on instagrams,

yep it was a weird time,

why did grandmother do it, Grandpa

because all the other girls did it

[JellyDonutguy96]

back in my day*

ugh that sounded wrong
back in my dad, I hope I never say that again ugh

[zoe2187]

My children think it’s hilarious to ask if cars were invented when I was young. 😑

[beebella]

You mean my grandchildren? Probably my past lovers.

[winterfox10]

Probably about the first time I met mommy, or what it was like driving gasoline powered engines or something.

[TheSikuu]

"What was it like without robots, did you have to do EVERYTHING?"
"Wtf is diesel?"
"What's this oldass green paper?"
"What was it like to get sick?"

[Johnmiller123]

The first iPhone, CD players, 9/11, Donald Trump, malls, Toys R Us, gas cars maybe, box tv’s, cigarettes.

[DiegoO]

What is like to be in a forest... What is like to drink fresh water... What is like to see birds flying, to go finishing... Etc

[DiegoO]

... I hate the corrector.. fishing.*

[porpose]

They would never ask but i would guilt them into listening me ramble about whatever shit i feel like talking about at the moment

[Anonymous]

"Tell us this time that you ran away from home and crushed grandpa's ferrari without him knowing."

Ah, good old times.

[Desconhecida]

Kids might ask me how I eat without teeth. I would show them my middle finger

[kydlow]

I love you

[Desconhecida]

Excuse me? Hahaha

[kydlow]

yea.. I think were in love now... im kyle, do you need help moving your stuff?

[Demised]

I don't think they would have time for an old joke.