Better Off Old-School
Friday, October 30, 2009
1. Communicating. I don't know many people who can't go ten minutes without checking on someone to see where their at or what their doing
2. Reading a book on actual paper than a Kindle screen
3. Listening to music on vinyl, it just sounds so much better compared to mp3's
1. clothes. these days everybody is dressed so similar and you can hardly find a person with his or her unique style. oh, the times when people were dressed in colourful dresses...
2. music and music events. where's that rock'n'roll as it used to be?!
3. writing with a pen on a piece of paper.
1. Buying fresh groceries every day.
2. Buying more things at local stores.
3. Having more structured "family dinners".
1. Dating Etiquette - I'd like you to open the door for me, take my coat, etc. Don't be afraid to be chivalrous!
2. Disciplining teenagers - So many parents accept disrespect from their teenagers and are afraid their kids won't "like" them if they discipline them. Your kids are teenagers; they're not supposed to like you! Take away their damn phone or ground them every once in awhile.
3. Patriotism - Country is about so much more than government. Be proud of your country's heritage, values, and citizens - and don't apologize for it!
1) Employment: I long for the days when you could get a job and stay at it. My grandpa worked at the same place for 35 years and then retired. Today everything seems to be on a contract basis - and companies are constantly re-organizing, so even if you DO have a good job, its likely to be in a department that will no longer exist in a year or so.
2) Manners: I'm a big hater of cell phones, but it isn't the phones that bother me - it is the behavior of the people who use them, and this seems to be indicative of a general disinterest in civility. Politeness seems to have become obsolete. I think I'm the only person in Seattle who is willing to give up her bus seat when an elderly person gets on. I've actually gotten dirty looks from other passengers because of it.
3) Sexuality. I don't have a problem with anybody's (consensual) sex life. I just wish they would keep it in their bedrooms. Holding hands with your boy/girlfriend, giving them a kiss or a hug, perfectly fine with me. I just don't want to be invited into the details of your particular sex life. If you are into S&M, don't come to visit me with your spouse on a leash. I don't want to see people rubbing their pelvises together until their ridiculously tight pants practically catch fire. I guess I'm old fashioned because I recognize a difference between public displays of affection - and unsolicited free sex-shows. If I want a sex show, I'll damned well solicit it!
1. Weapons. Get rid of guns, missles, bombs, tanks, all that crap. Let's do this thing with swords so you can actually defend yourself not just take one in the back of the head from 200 yards away.
2. Values. Oh, great, grand wonderful, you can make your own choices and do what you want, well, look where that gets you, you're an idiot (not you, him/her).
3. Basketball Shoes. Converse=Strong Feet
1. Toys. Kid's toys today have become much to intricate and advanced. I liked when kids were amused with two sticks tied together, or plain old just playing in the dirt. Toys today don't give kids much room to actually use their imagination and create. Which I think is important to do as a kid.
2. Video Games. They've gotten much too graphic, violent, and life-consuming. I mean seriously people, WiiFit? Is it so hard to just go out and get exercise that we have to have a video game to do it?
3. Sex. I can understand having sexual freedom, but it's become too free. There's too much skin and too much skank these days.
1. Allowing our children to lose a soccer game (baseball, football, etc) and call it just that. I'm so tired of this "Everyone is a winner" or "Winning isn't important, it's whether or not you have fun". Don't get me wrong, we shouldn't beat our kids over the head about it, but damned if we haven't created a couple generation worth of kids completely unable to cope with loss and/or failure. I say "Okay, you lost. No, you are NOT all winners. Now, what can we do to improve this".
2. Children playing outside, riding their bikes, climbing trees...it's so sad to see kids unable to entertain themselves. Now, without being hooked into "The Matrix" kids can often become helpless little creatures.
Which leads me to:
3. UNSTRUCTURED play time where parents just allow their kids TO BE...so, they're not running off to piano, tap, french as a second language, swimming, gymnastic, hockey...whatever...give them some stinking time to just BE...and, parents, give yourselves a break.
Letters or better yet visits instead of texting, tweets, or e-mails
Discipline and manners - your nasty mouthed 5-year old is not "cute"
Finding orginal fixes instead of running out and buying temporary cures
1. When peoples word was like gold. Honesty in all transactions. Too much fine print by the corporations to mess you over.
2. LIttle House on the Prarie days, minimalistic, did not have much but was rich in happiness, trust, honesty, health the priceless things in life. Moreover, the fact that there was plenty of land out there not all concrete farms built up...
3. No driving with cell phones and texting. Its just wrong and dangerous. Emergency I can see but that is it. I agree the fine art and skill of writing letters wow, do kids these days even know how???
1. Manners and decency in general. What happened to saying thank you when someone lets you pass? And when did it become okay for someone to talk on their cell phone in a restaurant, in the middle of a conversation or in a public place? I don't want to hear your loud, personal conversations.
2. Kids being able to play freely outside. I'm lucky I was able to experience this right before video games got more advanced.
3. Cartoons that were creative and had real morals and stories. Not the violent, fart-joke humor that is taking over now.
1. instead of the diversity flag being waved ever second, we werent afraid to stand for our beliefs.
2. i wish that everything on tv wasnt reality
3. i hate cell phones. period.
i wish the atmosphere was livin' in an 'old fashioned state of mind'.. where soda pops and milkshakes were a treat to look forward to after your date picked you up. What's with men being picked up by women these days? I guess that wiggles into the whole feminist thing. It's one thing to have equality and balance in different fields amongst sexes, but it's another when it gets boiled. just let it simmer.. i am a strong independent woman.. but I find it funny that i have seen a woman preach that shes independent, etc and she is just as equal as a man, yadda yadda yadda. She goes on a date. the male doesn't pay for her. The woman has a fit. Men are created equally to women... right? isn't that what you were fighting for? If so, be a feminist all you want but don't complain that "things arent what they used to be" when a man makes you pay for your meal. Moderation is key people. and values, morals will play into the relationship depending on each individuals personality. Wow....
I totally just ranted. I feel like Dr. Cox.
* I miss phone calls, yes I'm text savvy, but emotion gets lost through text and email..
Pick up the phone now and again, won't you? If you don't, then our friendship stays at level 1 (relationship layers being a whole other topic).
* That said, I miss the personal touch of a stamped letter or handmade card. I still take the time to do this for my friends and family, but rarely have the favor returned.
I attribute both to laziness, the ease of sending a quick email or text by pushing a few buttons...yesyesyes, I get it for the daily routine...but weekly or monthly, pick up the phone before we forget how to converse in "real time." Oh and when was the last time you used a pencil? Awkward?
* Which leads to my finale'...Have we forgotten how to converse? Eye contact? "How you doing?" as you pass someone by. I'm one of the only ones in my office who say good morning as I enter the office. Some of my conversations with "friends" lack a greeting or a sign off. Really? You can't even say hello to me before asking when an event is taking place or what my weekend plans are.
Sometimes I gently issue a reminder and personalize the convo before answering the question, other times I sigh with frustration and answer, while reminding myself that not every one wants a deeper connection, some people seem content with a superficial interaction.
1. Pride in our country. Sometimes people just crap on our country - get out if you don't like it lol.
2. Respect for others - No one really says "Excuse Me" or "Thank You" anymore. Some people are loud and obnoxious and apparently aren't sure how to behave when around other people.
3. Cartoons - I miss the old cartoons. Half of these cartoons are 3D or Anime. I like the way cartoons used to be.
1. Entertainment. I wish reading a book or spending time with people was the chief entertainment, not TV or internet (although I admit I do go online and watch TV a lot more than I should)
2. Dating. Whatever happened to it? There are hardly any gentlemen out there now. Well, I'm in school still, so I can't say much more about it though.
3. Books. In general, the popular ones (cough, twilight) suck. Let's get some good literature!
1. No more cell phones...especially in the movie theater!
2. No more video games...kids don't play outside anymore.
3. I miss my parents record player and albums...nothing like the sound of the needle hitting the vinyl................and one more......courtesy. I miss politeness in the world. Thank you :)
1. Things to do with ink and paper: handwriting, letterpress, wood-block printing.
2. Manners: at table, in conversation, in public and in private.
3. Talking in coffee shops instead of everyone being plugged in, online, and head down.
1. I want someone to actually pick up the phone and make plans with me instead of sending a mass text to "party hard at this address tonight!". what if I'm already busy tonight?
2. I want to go back to the days when Halloween was about having the most creative costume, not about how much skin you can show before people start seeing your private areas.
3. I want to remind my customers that there is a world outside their cell phones and that it is incredibly rude and disrespectful to be on them while they are standing in my line trying to get my help. My time is not less valuable than yours! Please end your call and I will be happy to give you the attention you need.
@walanlove - I was thinking the same thing about The Office. I was so disappointed with the Jim and Pam wedding. Nothing was really funny and nothing was really sweet. Strange writing on that one. I was thinking about the Dwight character as well and how I enjoyed him when they added some depth to his personality in the episode he moaned alone in his room after the breakup with Angela. It was during Jim and Pam's visit to the farm house. So far this season his character seems to be at a standstill. I've wondered if there are new writers for that character. If so, they haven't captured his essence. I hope they do soon.
I miss the days when children were taught to be polite and obedient.When you didn't go to the store or gas station in your sleep wear.Boys wanted to be men they didn't walk around with there under wear hanging out of there pants.When young girls didn't want to show all they have to get noticed.I miss seeing pride and drive.were did it all go?
1. Family dinners. When did we all get so busy we couldn't sit down for a real meal?
2. Courting. I'm so tired of everyone I date thinking I'm gonna hop in bed with them on the first date. I want to be wooed and actually get to know the person first.
3. Paying for things with cash. It's all credit these days. It's like we always owe someone. I wanna be a free woman! :)
1. Cordial and sophisticated behavior like in the early 1900's. Where people actually cared about each other, or at least gave the appearance that they liked you. :)
2. Social gatherings. Why can't we eliminate the social networking sites and meet face to face anymore? Hyper-connectivity is garbage.
3. Appreciation for the simplicity of life. Throw away all that unnecessary technology, break a sweat, and do something. Listen to the wind, stare at the stars, sit beside a fire. What happened to that? I love that.
Typically, I am forward thinking without a huge appetite for nostalgia.
1. I would like to go back to the days of non-mobile email. I like email, but I am haunted by my blackberry. It is a true love/hate relationship.
2. I would like to go back to the days of local businesses - local restaurants, grocers, clothing stores, etc. I love small businesses and hate that the Wal-martization of business has forced many small businesses to the sidelines.
3. I would like to go back to the days when The Office was funny. The current season is uncomfortably disappointing.
[1] vinyls & LPs; it's the only real way (besides seeing a band live) to listen to music.
[2] secret handshakes that don't involve a fist bump.
[3] chuck taylors (allstars) worn in basketball. those were the days.
1. Knowing your neighbors - at least their names.
2. Knowing where your food comes from - at least whether its a plant or a tree.
3. Knowing the news - not just the headlines.
one more....
How about a time when a reality show was The Price Is Right? That'd be nice.
1. Hand written letters.
2. Good grammar. (not all this LOL, LMAO, WTF, ect) LEARN HOW TO SPELL ! And even if you don't want to put out the effort, there's a thing called SPELL CHECK.
3. People being nice for no particular reason. Good morning to all !
1. "Snail" mail. I love receiving hand-written cards or letters in the mail.
2. The Encyclopedia/library. Google and wikipedia have eliminated any need to go to the library and look stuff up.
3. Land line telephones. What if I don't want to be contacted everywhere I go via cell? I miss messages on the home answering machine.
1. Music. While being able to download all kinds of music and carry most, if not all, of it with me wherever I go is convenient, mp3 lack the romanticism of vinyl records, of going to the record store and sifting through them and maybe stumbling across the one that might change your life, if only a little bit.
1. Chivalry, manners. What the heck? It doesn't take any effort to open the door for someone. You are usually going in the same door, anyway.
2. Family Dinners. Everyone is working and playing all day long, but it would be lovely if more families sat down together for a dinner once or twice a week, without surrounding the tv.
3. Communication. Cell phones are brilliant, but they take away from the personal connection you get when talking to someone face to face. That's the same for e-mails. Getting a note on the computer seems so much less personal than getting a letter from the postman.
1. Wearing more formal clothes in public
2. Wearing two six shooters in your holster and some spurs on them cowboy boots
3. Going for a Sunday drive
1. i'm not that old but still when i was a kid we never wanted to be inside, not even when it was freezing cold in the winters, we wanted to play outside until our parents forced us to come in. our minds would be creative because we made up our own games. playing outside, getting some exercise just by running around and playing all day, not needing to send any kids to fat camp!
2. getting your clothes from out older brothers/sister and realtives, haha i love when i look at the old pictures and see that i'm wearing my big brothers old shirts. now i see toddlers with adidas clothes that they are going grow out of in a few weeks, all that money just to waste.
3. spending time with your grandparents! my grandmother thought me about the good ol' days, thought knitting, cooking, told me stories about where our family came from, how she grew up and i will never forget what i learned from her.. R.I.P <3
1. good manners.....where are they? i grew up saying yes mam...yes sir....i hate yeah as a response.
2. i agree with everyone else on here about the handwritten letters....i love stationary....
3. playng outside as a child....i know people love their video games...but people....get involved with your children and PLAY OUTSIDE! run...sweat...enjoy one another.
1. Reading a book made from paper - not listening to it on your ipod or scrolling through one on your phone or Kindle.
2. Writing a letter with paper and ink. Less emails and texting.
3. Music that has some originality.
1. independent radio. Where the dj can play whatever the hell he wants
2. having lots of people over for dinner. Family, friends, whatever.
3. a little less TV, a little more anything else.
1. Ordinary mail. I love handwritten letters and postcards, that's why I'm in a website called: Postcrossing.
2. Good manners. Where the hell are those old good manners? I hate rude people that don't even answer to you when you say "Good Morning" or those who do not hold the door when you're loaded with purchase, etc.
3. Photography. I mean paper photography, I miss old cameras, polaroids, and paper photography in general.
1)Handwritten letters- No one really does that anymore.
2)Relationships- Where you actually know who the person is before you marry them.
3) In Home childbirth- Most children were born in the home and not in the hospital. I dont think it shouldve ever changed except in extreme circumstances of course.
1. Food - it used to be grown, cooked, and enjoyed slowly
now everyone is obese on convenience and no one knows how to manage all their stress and hunger between the protein bars, energy drinks, weight-loss supplements...
just sit down and eat a balanced, home-cooked meal (sure it takes 25 minutes, but put on some music - you might actually enjoy unwinding in the kitchen and do it more often - hey look vegetables!) Chances are if it took you 25 minutes to make it, you won't scarf it down in front of america's next top model on tv!
2. Business
Used to be that you'd need to know the character of a person before you determined whether you wanted to do business with them, now it's barking orders, price conversions, and VOLUME. Quality has been taken out of the equation. Obviously a business is dependent on profit, but taking a little bit more care and time in doing it right is something that used to be common business practice - what happened?
3. Personal Grooming/Style
What is it with the juicy couture sweatpants?! Looking polished takes a few extra minutes, but it makes the world of difference when you feel good about the image you're presenting. And I'm not talking expensive (juicy couture isn't cheap!) I mean a put-together, stylish, and personalized look that conveys you are an individual with class, not just advertising a name brand...
1. Can everyone just take out/off their headphones while in public, especially when some is talking to you. (This especially goes for bluetooth headsets.)
2. CFLs hurt my brain. There's got to be a better way to save energy.
3. "Organic": What a marketer's delight. Can't things just be natural? I don't think that food should be overly processed, but why must it be over-priced and never exposed to a single chemical compound? We all breathe in more chemicals everyday than organic food will ever save us from.
Conversation - Before cell phones I could remember what my friends' faces looked like. Now they all look like this: =)
Dinner - What happened to sitting down to a meal every night at the same time. Knowing when you got home you'd be eating with family without a doubt. I'm afraid I can know longer smell what the Rock is cooking, much less my mom.
Television - I miss the days when sitcoms and ESPN, Saturday morning cartoons (yes, at nineteen I'm old enough to remember) and music videos ruled the channels. Now you can't find one channel that doesn't sport it's own version of Road Rules or televised speed dating.
1. film instead of digital photography
2. constumes/make-up and Star Wars special effects instead of modern special effects
3. funny sit coms instead of.... grrrrr...... reality "tv"
1. Getting from here to there.....it might slow us down, and THAT is what we need, ...time to think and do things right.
2. Listening....we used to do it with our mouths closed,...now we can't wait for whoever we're talking to to shut up so we can show them how much WE know.
3. Eating....If we could learn to spend time eating together again, and enjoying each other's company, enjoying the food, not jamming down as fast as we can..we might just be a healthier human race.
I can only focus on one right now.
being neighbors. I remember when I was a kid we knew our neighbors, every one on the block, and we cared about them, we'd invite them over for porch parties where the adults would drink a glass of wine and chat for hours and watch the kids chase fireflies or draw with chalk until we couldn't see the ground anymore in the dark. we would have barbeques and pool parties in this back yard or that. I now live on my own and can honestly say I don't know anyone that lives around me and it seems they don't care to know me either. what happened to being nice and welcoming?
1. Film - I love photography, and think film should never go away! Digital photography is great, but doesn't have quite the same feel as a developed roll. (:| and Polaroid film should totally come back)
2. The Pre-Facebook days - Not a Facebook hater, but it's funny how most of us can't even remember our life before Facebook, yikes. Before it, people took the time to find your contact information, and write out an email (and even before that, they used to write letters... ahh the good ol' days). Now it's just a flimsy scroll over someone's profile to find out what they've been up to lately instead of calling them or emailing them to personally inquire and show you care.
3. Typewriters - I think they're clunky and magical, haha.
1. Can we please get rid of GMO foods, nature's been "doin' the damned thing" since creation we need to stop meddling! Why can't everything be organic and with only about 5 ingredients that you can pronounce.
2. Peace out to the microwave. Go back to cooking real food... guess what? You can actually pop popcorn on the stove in the same amount of time!
3. I too am so over the gym, but I do go at least 4 days a week.I wanna see people go back to the parks, trainers on the corners with their clients, and more bike lanes on the streets.
1. Remove all non-traditional baseball concessions. Food should be loosely limited to beer, peanuts and regional sausage of choice. Crack Jack is given a major pas simply because of it's longevity. If you want wine, baked potato or cheese other than the melted, high frutose variety, you need to remove yourself from the ballpark.
2. Families (of any shape, quantity or form) make a point to eat at the dinner table together and catch up on the day's events. So much is lost or never discovered when this is overlooked.
3. People were hired to pump my gas and wash my windows. Sometimes, I just like to rely on the convenience of Western civilization simply because I wish to be lazy.
@Phuquer Well done! Couldn't have said it better myself. Took the words right out of my mouth. I'll add to the music portion... Enough w/ the voice synthesizers! Artists sound great on radio or on music video, then you hear them live and the artist sound nothing like they did on the finished product after editing. This makes me believe that they're are in it for the records sales, instead of the actual art of music making.
Remember when dj's would actually spin vinyls? I do... Now everyone is a dj with computer assistance. It's a lost art spinning and blending different songs together without having the beat get off balance.
1. Music. Seriously, why in all the hundreds of hours that are pumped out every month can I only find a couple bands that I like? I can't even listen to the radio anymore, and forget about MTV...
2. Kids' movies. I'm seriously worried about the next generation of kids... I don't care what they say, my kids are watching Toy Story and Aladdin and Snow White!
3. English. I don't like watching my beloved language wither and die under the weight of texting, Facebook, and an overall lack of interest in proper grammar and syntax. srsly tho, amirite???!?!!
Eighteen and already sounding like a crotchety old man. What is this world coming to, dagnabbit??
Lawns: They don't belong in any place that gets less than 25" of rain annually.
Ag: Flood irrigation is extremely wasteful, especially in desert climes like the Imperial Valley, Central Valley, and Great Plains. Ag should be practised only in areas with sufficient rainfall or excess surface water (that means you take maybe 10% of the river's overall runoff, not 100% as we've seen in the West; the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea) to support the crop.
Time: We're working ourselves to death just to postpone our often pitiful modern way of life. We don't have time to write letters, we don't have time to build log chairs, we don't have time to bike instead of drive, we don't have time to cook, we don't have time to date, we don't have time to write real music or make real art. Stop demanding such ridiculous levels of 'productivity'. We're exhausting our minds, bodies, resources, and souls.
Limits: Why only three?
Photoshop: Sure, it's easier, faster, and looks more professional, but doing things by hand is a lot more impressive, in my opinion.
1. dating 2. dating 3. DATING!
I CONSIDER A 'REAL MAN' ONE WHO'S A ROMANTIC AT HEART!
Ride a bike instead of drive. Grow a garden instead of purchasing everything. Stop using the freezer and microwave and cook something!
1. Facebook & birthdays - I love facebook and I find it useful, but it was nice when people actually called you for your birthday instead of just leaving a comment on your wall.
2. Dating - Back when people weren't afraid to do "corny" stuff.
3. Family - When parents actually set some time to spend with their children.
@newfangled93 Holy Cow! I was waiting for the mention of the text message phenomenom. It's a saddening sight to see how humans, who are physiologically blessed with the most advanced communication skills on this planet, have reduced themselves to short, abbreviated sentence fragments on 2in x 2in screens. Bring back the beauty of the spoken word and the elegant flow of an intelligent dialogue (if we still know how to do it!).
1) letters. i love getting mail so i usually try to send my friends letters and care packages hoping one day, maybe i'll get one in return. e-mails and facebook message and whatever... aren't the same.
2) home-cooked meals. don't get me wrong, i love a nice restaurant. but i miss meals cooked at home and meals that took a lot of work, but were worth it. growing up we had one almost every night and i got to really appreciate them and enjoy my family. now that it's just my mom and i, it's so easy to just hit up mcdonald's. i miss the mashed potatoes.
3) playgrounds. i loved the wooden playgrounds where you probably got 100 splinters. when did we have to start changing everything to those plastic things? they are NOT the same or near as fun.
@DivineCrime
I have to agree. A lot of music has lost 'value, or meaning' for lack of better words. I find many of my family and friends listening to music about "birthday sex" and speaking of women as sex objetcs. Also when people scream in music. Okay maybe some of these people have pain from their past, but 2 or 3 albums of screaming, o gosh. They should go help out at a food bank or join the peace corps, they will really see some pain there, and help to try to end it. But on the contrary, there are some bands today who are talented and have meaning to music, like The Shins.
Dinner: I am not talking about frozen Lasagna you put in the oven pre-made. I am talking about boiling the noodles, making sauce from stewed tomatoes and paste. I love putting work into dinner, and my family thinks I am nuts. You cant substitute taste for time.
Handwritten Letters: I loved going to the mailbox & getting letters when I was in Elementary school. When your a kid lifes so simple, now I only go to get coupons, yay?!
Talking On the Phone: I am guilty of texting, but not having conversations on the phone. I thought my generation was supposed to be lazy, but yet we take time to text. I love hearing and talking to friends and family, not texting. Its easier to talk, I find my fellow class mates texting at all the wrong times, and end up getting all the 'wrong' marks too.
if i could have picked when i was born i would have been born before all the technology got to where it is now. back in the day you didnt have to worry about much at all other then money. but then.. money wasnt the most important thing.
i guess the three i choose are:
communication- communicating with friends and family use to be a joy now by creating all kinds of communication devices you know exactly what everyones doing all the time. nothing is personal anymore. everyone knows your life all the time
quality family time- back then it wasnt about money like i said before. familys actually spent quality time together. now days its hard to even get all the family at the dinner table.
relying on yourself- everything has a machine or a mechanic that you can give money to to fix all your problems. what happend to figurings things out for yourself?
All I can say man, is thank you for reminding those of us who once knew a real life how to live.
Must admit, I have to agree with parenting. Main reason I don't have children - you can't really be a parent anymore. Anything you do is scrutinized by too many people and you can not raise your children the way you want to - it has to be the way the state allows you to.
Video games- I don't need everything to look real. That's why I'm PLAYING A GAME.
Letters- Email is so impersonal and doesn't mean as much. I don't care how bad you think your handwriting is; write me a letter.
Parenting- It's ok to spank your children. I was spanked, and I knew EXACTLY what not to do.
@headsonfire I agree that we shield kids and often times ourselves from many realities to the point of complete disconnection. I would never suggest a total reversion to the past. We need to learn from the harsh insensitivity of the earlier past and the debilitating over sensitivity of the recent past and present and find a constructive balance. The problem with that may be humanity's track record with balanced approaches recently. Maybe not humanity as a whole but within certain segments of humanity, we seem to be revolving back and forth between extremely polarized viewpoints on many important isssues. We react quickly and often impulsively instead of accessing situations and synthesizing thoughtful responses and actions. We need to simply slow down and move forward with well thoughout planning and not 7 second bites of rhetorical pandering.
1. traditional camera-how should anyone consider using digital camera is an advantage I never know, it's not. sometimes being able to take as many pictures as you like would distract you from the moment and it's a pain to organize those images afterwards.
2. cell-phone seems to be repeatedly mentioned here, I can only say : couldn't agree more.
3. no more phony bi-lingual stuck-ups, I miss the day when people talking only in Chinese and not like now inserting English words here and there just to satisfy their sense of superiority. but what they never realize is that this only shows how bad they are in their mother tongue...SAD!
Growing our food. Half the time I have no idea where my food comes from. I pick it up at the supermarket, and it ends up on my plate. If that supermarket (and the global food conglomerates that sell it the food it eventually sells to me) ever goes under, I'm more than screwed. I want to be able to feed myself, and in not the "make-enough-money-to-put-food-on-the-table sense." I want to have the opportunity to see my food at every stage of its growth and production.
Creativity. I've always had this idea that creativity belongs to people who are talented and beautiful, people who can live off their art. But I feel like that's so wrong. Music doesn't belong to people who can get signed, and art doesn't belong to people who can get their paintings displayed in a gallery. What happened to music and art and creativity belonging to a community, and being open to everyone? I want to take it into myself, create things that I find beautiful, and share it with people who belong to me. That's how it used to be, and that's how it should be now.
Cooking. I miss making an actual meal and sitting down and having dinner with my family. When I finally have a home of my own, I don't want a microwave.
1. Libraries. It was a great place for teens to meet and socialize. We shared research, ideas, and gossip. Now, they do all their research on the Internet, in isolation.
2. Playing sports just for the fun of it. It seems that for today's kids, it is all about eventually becoming a professional sports player when they probably have a better chance of winning the lottery. Instead of being a place for kids to have fun and maybe learn a little discipline, it is all about winning and advancing to playoff games and championships.
3. Stores closed on Sundays. This is not for religious reasons. I just remember when there was that one day a week that families were able to spend together because there was little else to do. I am as guilty as anyone else. I do my grocery shopping on Sundays. We can often be found at the mall, and it is not unusual for me to go into work. I miss the days when families could count on that day to spend as a family. Kids didn't have to work because stores and fast food joints weren't open. While some parents worked, most didn't, at least not every Sunday.
1) Cell phones. Great for emergencies, not much else. I hate texting.
2)Reading. I still read, most people I know don't though.
3)Letter writing. I will agree with some others. Even though my penmanship blows it would be nice to receive a hand written letter. People also might be better writers as well. I know I would.
1. Music videos. I like to see how musicians express their music visually. MTV killed the music video (ironic, isn't it). Thanks for nothing, MTV!
2. Playing outside. Playing outside while waiting for the bus, playing outside after school and all day all summer long. I spent my entire childhood outside learning how to refine my motor skills, social skills, etc. It was wonderful. Exercise. What a novel idea?
3. Halloween. This used to be the BIGGEST holiday as a kid. There are glimours of hope, but it's not the holiday I grew up with. Back in the day, EVERY single house had their lights on. Schools celebrated Halloween. Parents got dressed up. It was a bigger deal back then, then it is today. It's a shame. Happy Halloween!
1. milk delivered by the milkman in glass bottles with the cream rising to the top
2. Sundays when no businesses were allowed to open, Sunday always meant time spent with family, a Sunday drive, a Sunday dinner
3. paperboys delivering a morning and evening edition of the local newspaper
Pain, we are completely shielded from the time that we are born from any thing that may hurt us like work and loss, I went to a funeral several months ago only to meet a man in his early 30 that had never experienced one before.
Talking, we text, and we email, we IM, until our fingers are going to fall off but the thought of having a conversation with the person next to us at Starbucks scares the hell out of us.
Parents, when did parents stop being parents? As a teacher I see every day parents that do not have the slightest idea what to with their child, and the resulting 6yr old that tells thair parents what they are going to do.
The way we interact. Some people at my work seem incapable of communicating in any other way than by e-mail. They send e-mails to people who sit less than 10 metres away from them when all they needed to do was walk over and talk to them. Too many workplaces seem to foster a culture of social retardation. Sometimes, I will walk over to talk to someone at their desk and will be greeted as though I have just broken into their house because I didn't e-mail them to tell them I would come and see them. Ridiculous.
Dating - I'm not talking 'old-fashioned' in a 'go steady' Richie Cunningham kinda way. Just not online!! I can't think of anything worse than meeting someone who has sugarcoated their true personality and photoshopped their profile photo from within an inch of its life! Meeting someone through a friend, at work, at a bar at a birthday - wherever it may be, has a lot more meaning than meeting someone based on someone's 'edited for tv' internet dating profile. When you meet someone in the 'real' world those initial interactions cannot be replicated online. Dating is like an episode of Punk'd, Fear Factor and Wipeout rolled into one. I have learnt so much and have been on some truly awful dates. I wouldn't have changed anything. You learn from your mistakes and move on. It's all part of the process.
Working out. I cannot understand why people go to those ridiculous 'spin' classes in gyms - where you effectively sit on a bicycle that is bolted to the floor for an hour and sweat to death with a room full of other strangers sweating in unison. Treadmills in gyms are a thing of mystery. Rather than go for a nice walk in the fresh air, you'd rather be on conveyer belt indoors staring at a tv screen. Hmm.
Music - my younger cousins will never know the beauty of making mixtapes and learning the fine art of pressing the 'record and play' button when recording songs off the radio. They may have iTunes, but I have a nice collection of musical masterpieces on vinyl in my garage - and I'm not even 30 yet. Sad but true :)
1. Video games- I like to kick it with super nintendo.
2. Cartoons- They're animated weird, I don't like it.
3. & I agree with @ElGuapo87 , less reality television.
Ya know, I was very good with a broom when I started in the workforce. But, where have all the brooms gone? They've been replaced by noisy, polluting, inefficient blowers! Let's go back to brooms, shall we.
There is far too much concrete in our world. It's Rome to the hilt! Let's go back to dirt roads and horses.
Board games are far more interesting and fun than TV. Face to face conversations and laughter? Give me this over mindless digital entertainment any day!
1- social interaction. I detest the way people pass each other these days with nary a glance, a word or a smile. People seem to almost not exist to each other any more.
2- house calls. Remember when doctors came to your house to check up on you? Probably not; I certainly don't. But it's nice to think about.
3- parenting. Parents used to have balls, at least back when parents were adults. Now that kids are parents, the 4 year olds are running the roost, and they're not learning about "old fashioned" things like respect, politeness, compassion and all the other trappings of civilization.
1. Bring VHS back they dont scratch like DVDs do
2. VIDEOGAME CARTRIDGES I still have my sega genesis
3. Something to watch on tv instead of reality shows they all suck ass
Letter writing- There is nothing like receiving a letter in the handwriting of someone you love. It also shows that they put effort into it. It doesn't seem to mean as much when you can just text someone in the blink of a eye. It also gives something to anticipate.
Dating-What ever happened to truly wanting to be with someone. Now days people are just looking for a hook-up. It use to be that you looked for someone to love all the time. Not just for a night.
Exercise- Why not go for a run or a walk. Who needs machines for something you can do manually. Even the WII can't make up for the lack of inactivity.
1. I like the old saying "it takes a town to raise a child" I wish that more people had the want to to see our children do good and go far.
2. My daughter says she wishes things could be like in theDazed and Confused without the weed. How simple it seemed and fun.
3.My husband says the way people interact. Polite and respectful.
1. Consume the fruits of our own labor and barter the excess.
2. Appreciate the value of an extended family and community.
3. Measure time by the movement of the earth and not by a clock.
I've only one wish.
That people would go back to thinking more about what they can give for the sake of others than what they can get from others for themselves. Greed, materialism, isolationism, relationship breakup and the general trend of doing dirt or even just inconsideration one to another all come down to this one shift in how we interact.
1. Video games- Todays big game comapnies label creativity as "risky" nuff said.
2. Movies- Guys in costumes look way better then cgi. movies today just use green screen for EVERYTHING.
3. War- Swords are better then guns.
First you'd have to define "old-fashioned." But I'll assume that you're leaving that up to us. It's a little difficult to, because things are constantly shifting. I mean look at old Nintendo game systems. I'm sure we've all at one point heard of how "old school" some of the things we enjoyed as kids are. But I'll assume a very broad sense of the phrase. I wish we enjoyed more home-made ice-cream. It's magical. I wish we hunted more; I don't and I realize how hypocritical this might sound but I think we wouldn't be so damn lost as a culture if we did. I don't want to get into how it ties in but I think that some mild contemplation might lead to what I was getting at. And for a third, hmm...I wish I was born in a simpler time when cultural codes weren't so jumbled. Ignorance is bliss and our theoretical awareness makes life a lot more complicated.
1) Dancing--sure dry humping to rap and hip-hop is fun sometimes but I would love to just go to a real dance sometime with swing and not have the guys groan about it.
2) Texting, my kingdom for phone conversations
3) It would be interesting if cars didn't exist and we went back to horseback riding...
1. Vinyl albums - Kids just don't understand the excitement of going to the record store, flipping through the stacks, finding that one record, turning it over in your hands, buying it and then racing home to put it on your turntable and hearing it in full for the first time.
2. Raising children - Get them out from behind the computer, TV or Xbox and shove their little asses outside. Tell them not to come back until their good-n-dirty. Stop sheltering your damned kids. Turn off the fear mongering news stories and realize that the world is not more dangerous now than when you were a kid. Sure there are new temptations, drugs and sex and such, but keeping your kids under lock and key only makes them more vulnerable to these dangers because they have no real world experience to help them navigate. And then the rest of us have to deal with your neurotic little messes.
3a. Quality clothes and tailors - I actually have access to tailors here, which is great. I don't mind spending extra on a quality item of clothing then getting it tailored to fit properly, as opposed to buying some cheap item that doesn't fit and falls apart after a couple of wearings. People, you don't have to dress like everyone else. Find what works for you, invest in quality and develop your own signature style.
3b. Style - Those too small hip hugging-muffin top inducing jeans and too short babydoll top are not doing you any favors. Stop worrying about wearing the "right" outfit and find the "right for you" outfit. You don't have to dress like a school marm but looking like a reject for a Kid Rock video isn't a good idea either.
@KingofthRoad - couldn't have said it better!
I get some funny looks when I order a neat single malt on occasion.
1- Power tools. Yeah, they're awesome, but sometimes, I just feel like sawing some wood by hand.
2- Sometimes, a lady just wants an old fashion gentleman. I'm a fan of chivalry, so shoot me.
3- Oh digital camera. I love you, but I wish I knew how to use a 35mm film SLR camera. I feel like I would totally enhance my photography skills.
food that I grow and hunt myself.
Knowing and helping your neighbor.
Playing music
1. Bobs I dont want the identical furniture set as my neighbor, bring back the solid wood and beautiful designs for a reasonable price! (I buy antique)
2. Food thats not filled with chemicals, I dont wanna eat some soup with an assortment of things I cant even pronounce or imagine more or less.
3. Old movies, most people have lost respect for the classics they're just as good as modern films just in a different way! Give em a chance, a lot are better than some of the mindless crap out today. Rebel Without A Cause is NOT boring!
1. I used to love those Drumstick ice-cream cones. Years ago, chocolate coated the entire inside of the waffle cone and back then chocolate tasted like chocolate. The Drumstick I remembered from my childhood disappeared for years and when it first reappeared on the store shelves after a long absence it was as I'd remembered. Same taste, nice crunch, hidden chocolate in the lump of ice cream. Then Nestle's bought them out. What a disappointment. The coating on the inside of the cone grew thinner and thinner until they no longer bothered and simply dripped a little chocolate in the bottom of the cone. And let's talk about the taste of that chocolate. The hidden chocolate surprise inside the ice cream was replaced with a blob of Nestle's chocolate syrup. I'll say it again. What a disappointment. I stopped buying it. Even on sale.
2. Kids are no longer allowed to climb trees. I read an article a while back in The Sun magazine about how kids don't have permission to climb trees in their neighborhoods. Liability and private property issues. They're even banned from public trees because of potential lawsuits. I can't tell you how many childhood afternoons I spent sitting on tree branches, flicking lines of ants out of position, until my butt went to sleep. I hung upside down by my knees until my face felt like it would explode. I remember how my sneaker toe slipped on wet bark trying to climb up after a rain. How sad for kids today. Everyone should go out and hug a tree. If you end up on Judge Judy, let me know.
3. Music over money. We've all heard the stories how back 'in the day' musicians were exploited by their music companies. Most of the profits went into corporate pockets. Not going to sugarcoat the old days. But with that said, at least those artists had a creative chance. They were allowed to experiment, sometimes even fail, and learn along the way. To hear music now is like listening to the same three song types in constant rotation.
@carebear87 I know - I'm 29 and already I feel like saying things like "why, when I was your age, we didn't have the internet and we were just fine!" :P It's nice to have the internet to connect, since no one goes outside anymore apparently, but I agree. Sooo disrespectful to use a phone during class - or anywhere someone is talking to you... grrr.
@Glycerine11 hear hear! Seriously - we finally get to a point in history where women can take the same respect and dignity as men have enjoyed for milennia, and so many of us are choosing to play some obnoxious game of being "sexy" or "cool like that," dancing along to the bitches and hoes lyrics. You don't have to be a "mean" person to refuse to accept that.
@Bequi3 I totally agree. 1. Eating food that we grow and cook or at LEAST that has not been genetically, chemically and technologically otherwise modified. Fresh, real food doesn't need high fructose corn syrup to taste "good."
2. Letting kids play tag, volleyball, and getting Fs when they're merited. Failure is a valuable life lesson that has yet not lost its necessity for being learned. Spanking is not what makes kids fail in life - nor is it necessary to make "good" people by any means, but when used as a last resort, it has not intellectually stunted the geniuses who have come out of spanking societies like pretty much any inventor or artist before 1989 :)
3. Healing minor or even moderate illnesses with natural medicine, knowing how to make and administer it, experiencing the gift of healing and wellness that is growing all around us rather than accepting that pharmaceuticals and "experts" know more than we do in all cases or that we should accept horrid side effects in order to treat symptoms rather than the source of the symptom. Not that I feel strongly about this or anything... :)
before i get into it that video was sweet. i wish i could do that shit rather than fighting with ikea.
1.) phone conversations.
2.) home cooked meals
3.) a solid prime time line up on network tv
I apologize for the double post!! I thought my first submission had been gobbled up!
The first one was better.
Growing and raising our own food. We are so detached from our food. Something had to die in order to feed you, yes even plants.
Kids making their own toys. Toys do everything for kids now even make the sound effects and come with their own story lines, there's no room for imagination left. Remember giant cardboard boxes?
Walking in order to get somewhere. Once upon a time it was nothing to walk three miles to a friend's house or school or the store or town. Overall we were in much better shape back then despite all the 24 Hour Fitness Centers we have now.
Three of the things I wish the world could go back to doing the "old-fashioned" way are:
1. Hand-me downs. (hope I used that expression correctly) Remember when we didn't throw everything out?
2. Asking each other "How are you?" with the intention finding out the answer.
3. Drinking old-fashions, rather than pre-mixed mudslides and margaritas.
Growing and raising our own food. Something had to die in order to feed you, yes even plants, but they don't get any respect any more because people don't experience the process. Home grown tastes so much better than bland store bought.
Kid invented toys. Remember when a cardboard box could be a rocket one day and a bus trip to the zoo the next? Today's toys do everything for you and there's no imagination left to add. The toys will even make the sound effects for you. Zhooom, neeeeee-oowww, pewpew pewpew!
Plastic playhouses even come pre-equipped with fake fire places. What happened to hammer, nails and wood?
Walking in order to get somewhere. There was a day when walking three miles to your friend's house wasn't even blinked at. Walking to school, walking to the store, walking to town. I suspect that over all people were healthier then despite all our fancy 24 Hour Fitness Centers today.
1. cell phones and answering machines..I mean if I really needed to talk to you I wouldn't need to be reached at alllllll hours and hear your voice reminding me to call you.
2. X-Box and/or Playstation are not my babysitters, although they have managed to find a place in my home that occupies my children.
3. A simple kind gesture or comment that wasn't said just to get a promotion, date, good grade etc...sincere hellos and goodbyes, a thank you wave for letting someone cut in during 5:00 o'clock traffic when all you want to do is get home too.
@Q Oh so agree with gatherings! We have what we call a Hootenanny at our house about every other week where friends come over and bring their instruments and some food and we chat and play and sing and eat and the kids run around and the house is loud and chaotic and full of excellent friends and good cheer!! Whew, was that a run-on sentence or what?
1) Food. I understand herbs and flavorings like BBQ, but cut it out with the High Fructose Corn Syrup and boiling things in fat. What happened to a nice smoldering fire to stick a pork chop over?
2) When women respected themselves and wouldn't let themselves be refered to as "Bitch" or let rap songs talk about "Slapping a Hoe" or "Face down, Ass up". I don't think so. I'll break any face whoever dares to talk to me like that.
3) Beauty. In outdoor nature and humans themselves. Women: PLEASE stop filling your breasts with silicon; you were fine to begin with and anyone who says otherwise is superficial. PLEASE stop getting liposuction, PLEASE stop changing yourselves for the sake of some shallow man, or to make yourself feel better compaired to some disproportionate chick who probably has back problems!! I wish we could all see eachothers faces and not the crap that some of us cake on! (I speak mainly of spray tans, over kill foundation, and most of all: whore-ish amounts of eyeliner.)
1. get rid of phones! If you need to talk to someone, meet them, or write them! I hate text I hate phones.
2. clothes, i wish i could dress like i was in That 70s show
3. Dating. its not like what it should be these days....
1. how kids entertained themselves
2. the way we produce food( no chemicals, preservatives etc)
3. where american citizens sought to preserve true american freedoms instead of seeking to replace them with socialistic ideas
1. Bring back Snail Mail. I miss the feeling of recieving a hand-written letter that someone took the time to write.
2. I wish I could have deep, complex conversations that don't consist of: "Like, omg!", "That made me LOL", or anything similar. I hate text/internet lingo.
3. I want to go back to the days when you had to either read a book or do something creatively stimulating to entertain yourself. My generation would have a brighter future if we weren't glued to our t.v/computer/mobile phones/anything else technological. Our minds would be enhanced by imagination and intellect.
1) Sitting around the table with the entire family for a home cooked dinner...from scratch of course.
2) Being entertained with interesting dialogue and story telling among friends- rather than depending on Hollywood to do all the work.
3) Living unaware of any such thing as "pornography."
1. cooking= you will love it.
2. be honest= strengh the soul.
3. No Texting= is the new anti-social revolution.
1. Reading books that are actually made from paper instead of a Kindle
2. Thank you notes and wedding invitations. Do you really want the biggest day of your life to come in html format?
3. Doing one thing at a time rather than the multi-tasking, ADD, iphone generation we've become accustomed to.
1. Music - auto-tuning your voice is not talent.
2. Personal Image - use your imagination on that one.
3. Pirates - Since when were punk Somalians called 'pirates'?
Ps,
Arrrrg.
1. When it was a good thing to work for the same company for thirty years
2. When radio stations played music and didn't talk over the beginning of a song
3. When Heroin addicts were screwed up adults and not eighth graders
1. Cell phones - there is a time and a place to use your cell phone. That time is not in the middle of the math class I am teaching. It's only been 5 years since I was in high school, but even then, I wouldn't have thought of texting or calling (which has happened more than once) someone in the middle of class--it's rude. Nothing you have to say can be that important, and what makes it even worse is that some of these kids have parents who call them while they're in school and expect them to answer.
2. Over-reliance on technology - I'm all for using technology as a resource, and I'm constantly listening to my iPod, on the computer, whatever... but too many people rely on technology to give them the answers without actually understanding what they're doing. Using just one example from what I've seen from my students in school, so many of them want to just plug whatever problem we're doing in the calculator and just have it spit out the answer. Sure, it's faster, but it's not really building any problem solving skills, logical reasoning, or understanding.
3. Respect/Friendliness - Just be nice to people, treat them the way you'd want to be treated, and have some manners. I don't think that that's too much to expect from a person.
reading - books, magazines, newspapers: INK on PAPER
writing - old school snail mail letters with personal stationery in scented/colored ink with hand-written intimacy
news - reading well reasoned out & researched articles (no screeching talking heads)
1. the radio for entertainment (use your imagaination?!?)
"granny, what did your family do after dinner?" "listen to the radio & chop nuts"
2. cooking over a real fire.
3. living in round homes.
like the nomads living in yurts. more economical, more communal.
I'm not back from the day..
but I did alot of resreach on it.
1. The music from the 60's and 70's
2. What happened to being able to leave the house SAFTELY? That includes going to school.
3. Drive in movies. I was to one a few times, but it's closed now. I miss it.!
1. Jazz clubs - From like the 30s & 40s...These were legit and who doesn't wanna dance like that??
2. Old fashioned dating. Nothing wrong with today's way of dating but some aspects of it were better off back then.
3. Cars. Classic models rule
1.) real letters with paper and pen
2.) cell phones that are just for emergencies
3.) magazines and newspapers in print
1. Modes of travel: what happened to walking places?
2. Swing dancing.
3. Respectful dating & courtship--I'm not saying let's lose equal rights...I'm just asking what happened to common courtesies.
4. (I know...4 is more than 3). Letters!
1. Real gatherings. People getting together, sitting around and talking. When you went over to someone's house in the 60's you sat around and talked because there was nothing else to do.
2. Before special effects dictated everything, actors had to act and script writers had to rely on story. Oh for the good old days.
3. If there was a time when men were allowed to say they loved each other...without it being weird...I want to go to there!
1. Meeting people face to face. KInda sick of like having to introduce myself through a social networking site or through a friend of a friend. I dunno what happened to "wow your wearing a nice shirt whats your name..blah blah blah." why is it weird that introduce myself to people on the streets.
2. Walking. I like walks is it that much of a hassle if its 75 degrees outside and u need to go to the store to just put on your shoes and walk. Like wtf, ugh i dont wanna wait for you to get gas and balh blah blah its right there! it takes 15 minutes more to walk but 5 bucks less to park wtf!! just use your legs!!!
3. The 90's. What I like grunge and the internet back when aol was the shit lol.
1. Real expression, not just a bunch of strange symbol
2. Real conversation
3. Decent make-up. Girls are mixing every colours possible. We hardly know what they're looked like behind those cosmetics.
1. Movies. I think there is a lack of creativity plague rushing through this Earth that every movie has to be cliche or adapted.
2. I know everyone is saying dating, but it's true. Phone calls and I love yous are special. Not just something you say "ily <3." I don't want to be less than three... I want to be special, not just a person you text when you are doing something else.
3. T-shirts and jeans are a fashion. I wish people would dress uniquely like they used to.
1. I wish swing-dancing was a big deal like it used to be....I just know I would be an AMAZING swing dancer.
2. Though they still exist in small towns, I wish the US as a whole was just a friendlier community...like I want to be able to walk up the street to the grocery store and not feel like there is a possibility of getting picked up and raped or something...
3. And I wish dating was like it used to be...everyone meets in person and men act gentlemanly for the most part. I am glad that women aren't discriminated against as much now a days, but I am big into chivalry.
I don't like itunes. Physical copies of music are so much better, whether cd, vinyl, cassette, etc. There's a certain quality about going out and purchasing them. And also having the album artwork.
Chalk boards. I don't know about your schools, but as of 2007 each school classroom in my county has a Promethean board (or "smart" board). They're $5000 each and the lightbulbs for the projectors are $200 each. Since the recession and the budget cut, we can no longer afford to buy replacement lightbulbs, so once they burn out the boards are essentially useless. Plus most of the teachers don't even know how to or like to use them. I've yet to meet a single student who hasn't said this was the dumbest decision ever. We all hate the boards. And we hate the jacked up parking pass prices (now $200; was $25) that result from poor budgeting.
Board games and card games. What ever happened to a good old night of take-out and poker? Forget xbox!
1. Books. Reading a book online in a Kindle or another device just makes me sad. I love the smell of books, cracking the spine, revisting them from my shelf at various times.
2. Social networking. I know my neighbors and folks on the block, but it boggles me that a lot of my friends in the city don't. Who is going to knock on the door if there is a fire? A Facebook friend?
3. Cameras. With film, we took one or two pictures and called it a day. With digital cameras, I've posed for a thousand shots. Digital cameras make us miss being present in the moment because we're so caught up filming it.
1. lame but true: facebook - no moms, no 13 year olds, no grandparents allowed.
2. bodies - no lipo, no implants, no makeup... nothing fake about 'em.
3. phones - no texting, no cameras, no internet. just cords and walls and conversations. no distractions while driving, no monopoly in public places, how i miss thee.
This one is tough for me, for some reason...
I love how far we've come in expressing human sexuality, women being more dominant, gays being proud of who they are, etc. BUT this revolution has also brought on 13 yr old girls posting sleazy photos of themselves on the internet, kids having sexual relations on school campuses, 16 yr old girls getting pregnant, etc etc. I don't want to lose the positive side to modern day sexuality, but I wish these negative points would go back to being more 'old fashioned.' But I guess you have to take the bad with the good.
Also, cell phones have been annoying me a lot lately. Especially, when I'm at work and try to offer a customer help or chat with them while I ring them up but they're so consumed in the conversation they're having on their cellphone they act like I'M bothering them. How rude. Also, I realized if I ever got stranded somewhere and my cellphone died and I only had access to a payphone, I wouldn't be able to call anyone for help because I don't know anybody's phone numbers by heart anymore. And these spoiled kids throwing tantrums cuz they HAVE to have the new iPhone, Blackberry, whatever. You're 12! You don't need a Sidekick! We didn't have any of that when I was a kid and I turned out fine. haha.
I still to this day buy much much older vehicles. These new cars now in days are so high-tech and electrical and fragile, they break and burn out easily. 'Old fashioned' cars last forever. I have an old 1990 Nissan that's been in two accidents and is still running perfectly. Think a new BMW could survive two accidents without repair? I doubt it! (yes I'm not the best driver, haha).
Oh, and MUSIC! They don't make music like they used to *sigh*...
I'm done rambling.
DISCUSSION TOOLSET
1. Woman's fashions
2. reading
3. writing letters, not txts