>Everybody older than you is not a boomer. >I'm early Gen X and my first five cars had manual transmissions. I'm early GenX as well. My point is every generation lacks knowledge of how to do something the generations before consider mundane or possibly essential. There's little benefit from saying an outmoded technique is crucial to contemporary times if that technique can't be used any longer. You can't push start most cars on the road today even if they have manual transmissions. No one benefits from the knowledge if it can no longer be applied. I still remember how to program the old Ashton-Tate DBase database system but it benefits no one for me to have that antiquated ability.