LOL, I work with a young guy who is a late Gen Y early Millenial, and one day we discussed going to “The Yellow House” for Chinese food. It is in a historic house that has always been yellow, and everyone has always referred to it as “The Yellow House”.
Heh, in all seriousness, he said “That’s racist.” and I admit I didn’t know if he was serious or not, but who can tell?
Also, another time further in the past, I was working on something and, holding my hand out said “Can you hand me a pair of dykes?”
After a second or two where no diagonal cutters were forthcoming, I looked at him expectantly, and his face was frozen. Uncomprehendingly, I said “What’s wrong? What is it?”
And he said “You said a word!”
I still completely did not get what the issue was...:)
I know I should be irritated, but...retelling it makes me grin.
Kind of like the time I was teaching a bunch of students about radio buttons in a program back at the end of the 20th Century in a computer class, saying “like those radio buttons in a car where if you push one in, the previous selection pops out so you can only choose one at a time...” and as I looked at the slack-jawed face of one of the girls sitting at the front of the class, it occurred to me “She has no idea what “radio buttons” are in a car!”
She had never seen them before!