Sometimes you live through things being invented, and everything about how they work is made crystal clear to you, and you have an intrinsic understanding, able to explain it to someone who is unfamiliar, and everything makes a lot of sense.
Other times you live through inventions mostly in a drunken haze of partying and going to broadway shows, and suddenly realize you don't understand one bit.
"Electricity. Uh, you know lightning? Kind of like that, except controlled, uh, don't stick a fork in any outlets you might find though, then it's just like regular lightning, and you'll die. Again. But there's switches!" He gets up and goes over to the wall and turns the lights off then on again. "There's not just lights, it does a lot of stuff. But, again, definitely don't put anything metal in the outlets on the wall. Don't mess with wires either. Promise?"
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Other times you live through inventions mostly in a drunken haze of partying and going to broadway shows, and suddenly realize you don't understand one bit.
"Electricity. Uh, you know lightning? Kind of like that, except controlled, uh, don't stick a fork in any outlets you might find though, then it's just like regular lightning, and you'll die. Again. But there's switches!" He gets up and goes over to the wall and turns the lights off then on again. "There's not just lights, it does a lot of stuff. But, again, definitely don't put anything metal in the outlets on the wall. Don't mess with wires either. Promise?"