CVS receipt was 4 1/2 ft long, only purchased 1 item

LOL, I knew I was dealing with an adenoidal millenial when his first response to me (stealth response, btw---he didn't quote my post) included the word 'granpa'. Showing himself to be both an age bigot and too ADD to notice that I'm female. None too surprising.

I love their mentality (and I realize I'm generalizing wildly here, so apologies to any millenial reading this who doesn't think this way) with regard to the notion that anyone who's over 45 and hasn't voluntarily and eagerly enslaved themselves to every piece of pop technogarbage on the market is a fossil who's hopelessly cyber-illiterate and should be shipped off to a re-education camp for proper indoctrination, or else just put out of their fossilized misery.

On my last job, I spent nine to ten hours a day in front of a computer. I'm quite proficient and literate with the damn things, but I just don't choose to have them impose any more presence on my life than I can reasonably avoid. I use a flip phone--I see no need to have a PC/home theater system/home office/photography lab/what-have-you other appendages to the power of etcetera to about x ten thousand on my person 24/7. I don't want to spend my time at the theater or in a restaurant, the park, library or anywhere else texting. You could not give me a Kindle. (I actually had a teen toddler berate me in a Starbuck's a few years back for having the temerity to be reading--gasp!--a physical book within the range of his vision! I was helping to 'destroy the environment' according to his reasoning, and should be getting my read on only in e-form. Unbelievable.) I avail myself of such technology out there as I feel is useful or enjoyable to me, and no more. The stuff is being marketed these days in a way that comes across as suspiciously addictive in some respects. "You can't live without insert-device-of-the-nanosecond-here kids!!! You're friends will turn on you en masse and rip you to bleeding shreds for your uncoolness if you don't possess this NOW!!! "

It's the tiresome assumption of superiority that kills me. I must be getting a bit more crochety with age, because these days I have less compunction about putting out my paw like Mama Bear, and giving a particularly pesky cub a good metaphorical box on the ear.

Sorry for the lengthy rant--I appreciate your post! This thread alone should have taught Junior that a lot of people are still receiving paper, and that those 'e-receipts' are not as ubiquitous as he thinks. But I suppose he'd have to pull his eyes away from whatever game app he's immersed in to see what's in front of his face. His constant mis-spellings, likely due to too much 'textspeak' (Orwell would have relished that word), give a clue to at least one thing he likely spends too much time doing.