I've started a list, just for fun, of all the things from my own lifetime, that my children don't know about. It takes my breath away, as a young mother, to see how quickly everything changes. I'm only 35, yet I can't believe I didn't have internet access when I was in college. How did that work?
Here's a good one from the other night. Sylvia was eating corn on the cob. She was taking bites randomly all over the place. I told her about a friend of my mother's, when I was a child, who taught me to eat my corn on the cob, straight across and when we got to the end she would "ding" like a typewriter. Then we'd push the corn back to the beginning and go again. As soon as I said "typewriter", I interrupted myself and said "Do you know what a typewriter is?" And she said "No." AUGH! After describing one, Sylvia said that she had seen them "in the movies".
I've got a list, and it seems to grow weekly. And I'm only talking about from my generation to my children here. I have a hard time imagining what the world will be like when I'm 90. Am I going to be this doddy old lady who can't figure out all the new-fangled technology?
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