At the top of the month, my husband and I were flying to Texas for the weekend so I could keep my A List perks.

When we landed in Dallas, I noticed the row behind us had one person on either side of the aisle-- both pilots.

As we were waiting to disembark, I started talking to the one directly behind us-- who was around our mid-young millennial age-- about his job, how they travel between airports or flights, and proceeded to thank him for getting passengers to their destinations safely when he was in the cockpit.

As we proceeded off the airplane, the boomer from two rows behind the pilot who tried to disembark before our rows looked at the pilot and said, “You know… I was in Nam.”

The pilot exchanged glances and a pained smirk with my husband and I, and proceeded to shut the boomer down with, “…cool.”

Arguably not the best example of a boomer being a fool… but the most recent one I’ve had. Still makes us laugh.