(May 17, 2013 at 10:44 am)festive1 Wrote:(May 17, 2013 at 12:44 am)Brian37 Wrote: No not useless just old. I am sure when technology passes you by in the future you will understand. It isn't so much that there is a script to life as much as it is a generational thing.
I played a simple Atari game console back in the late 70s. It had a simple up down joystick and 1 fire button. Most controllers for game consoles have more buttons than an elevator in the Empire state building. And kids younger than I was back then can kick my ass on modern video games.
The more life changes it stays the same. I rejected the music of my parents just as my younger co workers look at my taste in music and say " what is with you?"
Nothing is with me. I am simply used to different things in a different time.
You sound like my husband, Brian. He can't use a cell phone, computer, or even make the TV workI keep asking him if he wants me to type up his Rolodexes as contacts for his Outlook (he has 5 work rolodexes) and he refuses. He got a laptop recently, screwed up the install of Windows (due to not having an e-mail account), and lamented the lack of a floppy disk drive... You are not alone, and probably more tech-savvy than him
LOL, HA I hated towers without the really floppy floppies and then also when they got rid of the hard floppies.
There is not one youth who wont say on some subject in the future "What is with kids today". And there is not one kid today on some issue who doesn't say to themselves or in the open " That is so old hat, or dorky". They will have the same thing said to them by their kids.
A week or so ago, I was watching the only worthy cable or TV channel that doesn't beat the shit out of you with adds or corner bugs, Turner Classic Movies. ANYWHO I was flipping through channels and couldn't sleep and ended up on this late 1930s movie, a comedy, didn't watch all of it, but....
One line in it reminded me the teasing by friends I got in school and even today at work, one lady said to another, "It's a good thing your mother didn't have any kids". It is one of those moments you realize we are NOT a separate species.
