While the following joke is funny but a ribbing that some of us from older generations give to generation why I would hope that a generation Y reader would hit back. Maybe you could start with
We are called generation Y because we ask:
- Y the hell did Generation X and Baby Boomers screw up the country.
People born between 1946 and 1964 are called The Baby Boomers.
People born between 1965 and 1979 are called Generation X.
And people born between 1980 and 2010 are called Generation Y.
Why do we call the last group Generation Y?
Y should I get a job?
Y should I leave home and find my own place?
Y should I get a car when I can borrow yours?
Y should I clean my room?
Y should I wash and iron my own clothes?
Y should I buy any food?
But a cartoonist explained it very eloquently below… 