A grandparent
A grandchild and a grandparent, sixty years apart, who love each other and have very little shared vocabulary.
- When did you last write something by hand, and who was it for?
- What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
- What can you do with your hands that you learned by watching someone?
- When did you last make something with your hands?
- When did you last climb a tree, and who was watching?
- When did you last sing out loud in a car?
- When did you last dance in a kitchen, and what was playing?
- When did you last write a letter and put a stamp on it?
- When did you last fix something instead of throwing it away?
- When did you last get in trouble at school, and for what?
- When did you last get lost, and who found you?
- When did you last win something, and where is it now?
- When did you last shout at a machine?
- When did you last get a haircut you hated?
- When did you last hear your own voice on a recording?
- When did you last use a paper map, and where were you going?
- When did you last get soaked by rain and keep walking?
- When did you last name something: a pet, a car, a plant?
- When did you last climb onto a roof?
- When did you last carry something far too heavy on your own?
- When did you last take something apart to see inside it?
- When did you last stand in a queue for hours, and what for?
- What do you keep in a drawer that you will never use again?
- What subject did you fail and still love?
- What did you hate as a child that you now do for fun?
- What are adults wrong about that you will never get wrong?
- What do you cook without measuring anything, and where did you learn it?
- How do you get a stain out of a white shirt?
- How do you fold a fitted sheet, and who showed you?
- What is your method for getting back to sleep at three in the morning?
- How do you know when it is going to rain?
- Who taught you to drive, and what did they shout?
- What tool do you own that nobody else knows how to use?
- What plant have you kept alive longest, and what does it need?
- What have you mended instead of replacing, and who taught you the stitch?
- Which video game could you explain to a grandparent in one minute?
- What did you play outside at nine, and what were the rules?
- What did you once have to know how to do that nobody needs now?
- Guess what your parents were like at seventeen. Then let them correct you.
- Guess the job I wanted at ten, and why that fits me.
- Guess what I got told off for most as a child. Why that?
- Guess which food I refused to eat as a child, and how you know.
- Do I seem like someone who sleeps through thunderstorms? Why or why not?