Feeling very old.
I gave one of my daughter’s kindergarten friends a ride home today. Currently, I’m driving my FIL’s Corolla — he’s out of state for a while, so I’ve been switching between cars so that neither one is sitting for weeks on end — which doesn’t have any of the extras. Even the extras that aren’t really extras anymore.
So, when I opened the door to let her out of the back seat, she points at the door and says, “What’s that?” For a second, I have no idea what she’s talking about — then I realize it’s the lever that rolls the window down.
So I told her, suddenly feeling like a Luddite. But her response was “Oh, cool! Can I try it?”
So she had a fantastic time rolling the window up and down, up and down — and I was standing there, thinking how I did that the first time my mom got a car with power windows.
OMG the samething happened to me! I have a 2003 Saturn with windows you have to roll down. One Saturday as I took my 4 and 6 year old cousins to the movies, they wanted to roll down the windows but couldn’t find the automatic button. I told them they had to roll it down with their hands and showed them. They laughed themselves silly and for the rest of the car ride it was quiet as the played with their window handles.
Next time they will ask can they watch a dvd in my car. How am I going to handle that?
That happens to me when I talk to my youngest brother (9 years younger than me) about things like floppy disks.
You think that’s bad? We still have a telephone in the basement near the washing machine that not only has the curly cord between the handset and the phone…. but it’s rotary as well!!!
Crap. So not funny.
*chuckling* oh man…
Meljean, daaaahhhling, prepare yourself for many more of those moments.
OMG!! LOL My walking to school uphilll, barefoot, in the snow story that I tell my kids is this–my first computer had a 2 gig hard drive–same as the thumb drive i store my work on heeeh. Okay not as good as the windows but hey
Here was my family’s first computer — it’s selling for $9.99 on eBay
The manual told you how to write a string of code that made it look like a bunch of hearts (or diamonds, or any symbol you liked) were flying across the TV screen. I thought that was the freaking coolest thing ever.
I had a Commodore 64 and used to play that game called the Oregon Trail. My screen and was green and these corny little graphics, but I loved it!
I always ended up freezing to death in the mountains or being eaten by Indians.
Awww man, technology
But that was funny!
When I tell my 6 year old and 10 year old that we used to have to actually get up from our chairs and turn the dial on the television they freak out. Ah kids, aren’t they cute! lol
ought to try to explain the 8 track tape