Overheard...
35 year old: "Do you know much about cassette tapes?"
20 year old IT technician: "No. Not. . . No, I don't know anything about them."
What? Did I hear him correctly? He doesn't know anything about cassette tapes?
Does he remember laser discs? Then I guess he's never heard of 3.5" floppies? Or the 5.5" floppies in the Apple IIE?
Maybe zip drives? He's got to know zip drives?
DOES HE AT LEAST KNOW WHAT A CD IS???
I wonder if he ever played on a game console where he had to blow on the cartridge to get it started?
Has he ever played Mortal Kombat?! Or Tekken?
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I think most of you will agree with me that thirty isn't old. The only people who might disagree with me are people under 26. And to you I say, once you turn 26, you're pretty much 30.
Now that I'm thirty, you know what I am? No need to try and be polite. I'm old. I don't think I'm old, but the world seems to say I am. Toys from my childhood are now vintage. That Rainbow Brite lunchbox I used to have, vintage. My old glow bug, vintage.
Somehow the world just knows. When I'm in public, at restaurants, in the stores, I'm no longer a Miss. I'm a Ma'am now.
"Once you turn 26, you're pretty much 30." <--- This. Is. SO. True. The 25-and-under crowd is from a totally different time-space-continuum.
ReplyDeleteI turned 30 in May. There is a very sweet 22-year-old girl in my office who has no idea what it was like to fast-forward through a "taped" show on a VCR. She certainly never PAGED anyone.
Anyway, loved this post. (Randomly found you on the BlogHer ad on the side of my blog and am following you now!)
VCRs! haha love it! Sometimes I want to watch movies on video - real video - so I can fast forward through all the beginning federal warnings and other boring stuff that they don't let you skip through on a DVD. I'm glad you enjoyed this!
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