Y does the minority give the rest of us a bad name…

For a while now, the ‘generation gap’ meant that our parents didn’t understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones, why boys had to wear their pants down around their knees or why every other word coming out of their child’s mouth was “like.”

Now it seems that the generation gap has expanded through all aspects of life.

Instead of just punching out some random opinions I thought I’d tell you a story! So here’s how my generation story goes!

Being referred to as Gen Y was never really a part of my life until I met Andrew.

Andrew is an old school friend of my partner John’s. He is extremely funny, very quick witted and seems to be fascinated with the whole Gen X, Gen Y thing!

While there is a 12 year age difference between John and I, I never really categorised us into different generations…. until I met Andrew!

So what or who are Gen X and Gen Y? In the UK the term Generation X was first used in a 1964 study of British youth where the study revealed a generation of teenagers who “sleep together before they are married, don’t believe in God, dislike the Queen, and don’t respect parents”.