12 struggles your grandkids will never have to go through
There are some things, for better or worse, the children of today will never understand. How many of these are you glad we don’t do anymore? Or maybe you prefer the old way?
Passing notes in class without getting caught
Now it’s trying to text in class without getting caught…
Rewinding your videotapes
You always forgot and ended up spoiling the end of movies
Making sure you had coins to throw into the toll booth
But now you’re not even sure if the e-tag beeped or not.
Searching for the perfect CD to play in the car
“Don’t you get your music from the internet?”
Having to carry heavy Discmans/Walkmans/boom boxes around if you wanted to listen to music on-the-go
We would have laughed in your face if you told us in the future something as tiny as an iPod could hold so much music.
Walking away from the playground with a few splinters, cuts and scrapes
Playgrounds don’t seem as grand as they once were today.
REMEMBERING numbers to call people
“What’s his number?” “Let me check my phone”
Spending hours searching the Yellow Pages to find a number
You always missed it the first time.
When you urgently needed to mail out your bills but you’ve run out of stamps
At least stamps were cheap then…
Lugging a heavy video camera around all day at the family get-togethers
You were always behind the camera, never in front.
Accidentally taping over important home videos
“Honey, you didn’t want our wedding video anymore, right?”
Figuring out which way the paper goes to send a fax
Don’t tell me the fax paper has run out AGAIN.
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