This morning I was checking out this article. It's about things that the graduating class of 2010 doesn't know/can't relate to and things that have always been for them. Things like Nirvana being considered classic rock and not writing in cursive.
Even though I consider myself to be a pretty adaptable person who totally doesn't feel my age, I still felt kind of old and dated by some of the list. :)
Which got me thinking......
What things do I remember that my kids (ages 13, 8, 7, and 4) don't remember and won't ever be able to relate to?
1. We didn't always have cable--Now Jeff and I did go through a no-cable phase in the early '00s but my oldest is probably the only one who'll remember it. What I'm talking about is how back in the day, the majority of people didn't have cable. It was a newfangled thing that most people considered luxury instead of necessity. I can remember being ten years old and having a cable company representative come to our door trying to rustle up subscribers. I remember my grandmother being able to choose what channels we wanted and BEGGING her to get MTV(when it was actually a music channel!). We had a huge console television set with a dial (another thing they won't know about), so our "remote" was a rectangular box with 15 buttons on it. Each button was assigned 2 channels and there was a "shift" button to determine which of the two channels you wanted to choose. AND....the box was connected to tv set by a long wire that went across the room and that we ultimately tripped over on a regular basis.