Today I paid $50 for one tank of gas! I really shouldn't complain since it has been nearly two weeks since last filling up, and that tank of gas got us to the beach and back and then around town for a bit. But it was a surprise and it reminded me that I remember gas being $.80... too bad I wasn't driving then :) I doubt Gabriel will ever see a time when gas is under a dollar... and that got me to thinking of all the things that were a part of my life growing up that he will never know:
- Walkmen and cassette tapes. Though I must admit even I didn't really want to know them. I always got frustrated when my cassette deck ate the tape, and when I wanted to fast-forward or rewind by just one song.
- Pay phones, or home phones for that matter. It's probably good he won't know pay phones as they were always gross anyway.
- Time before the internet. I remember having to go to the library to look things up in an encyclopedia, now you don't even have to get dressed. You can look up any random fact, at any time, and in your pajamas!
- Real cameras (not the digital contraptions I have come to rely on)... okay, this one might be hasty, he is our son after all, the boy will know a real camera.
- A broke-down car. Believe me, we have had our share (and they have provided countless hours of amusing stories. We can laugh now... about most of them). I am reminded of no heat in the middle of an Ohio winter with a car that would barely accelerate... and broke down in the middle of finals... causing us to wait until 3am for a tow truck.
- Floppy disks. Enough said.
- When you actually had to write a paper check to pay your bills.
- Tube tv's & monitors. Not really missing anything here.
- Cartoons that were really meant for kids.
Hmmm, maybe I wish I grew up in G's time! What things can you think of that our kids won't know?
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Things your kids won't know about - an age without computers - The Concord (International/Overseas flight plane) - Possibly regular light bulbs (everything seems florescent now or compact florescent) - coffee pots/percolators the things before auto-drip and Mr. Coffee - typewriters/adding machines (all computers-word processors/calculators now) - mimeograph machines (the ones with the purple print when hand-cranked out) - stand up chest x-ray machines - Cars that don't have automatic transmissions or power steering - I could probably go on but I think I'll stop here - Mom/Grandma Le Page 5-54-2011
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