how things have changed

[rcanewvista]

I'm 30 yrs old and I grew up around rotary phones too. Infact when I was a toddler one of my first toys were a fisher price rotary toy phone (I got my older cousins hand me downs). But I noticed my nieces and nephews now have fisher price toy cell phones haha. Its funny how these toys are supposed to help prepare us for the world when we grow up, but by the time we get there the things we learned are obsolete. I also had a toy camera as a kid that had a fake flash cube that turned when u pressed a fake shutter. It was many years later that I finally realized what a flash cube was- since when I was growinp flash cubes were long a thing of the past. So I was prepared for a life in the 60's except I was born in the 80's. It no wonder I love things from that era.

Until recently I had a rotary phone in my house, I had one installed in my bar. Then one day when I left my wife alone in the house a telemarketer kept calling and (according to her) the bell from the phone annoyed her so much that she ripped the cord out of the phone. She claimed she didn't know how to silence it (just pick up the receiver and put it down??). Now I have to rewire the damned thing, I was really pissed. Anyways I find this a good example of how most people these days don't care about the past and won't even take the opportunity to learn something new ... err old haha.