Doing things the old fashioned way

[golfgal]

We are thinking about dropping our satellite channels down to the lower tier. We would lose the Sirius radio channels and I was thinking I would really miss them-then I remembered I could turn on the radio

I went to get something out of the trunk of DH's car a while ago, grabbed my keys and went out into the garage and found the car locked. I went back into the house to get his key fob remote to open the trunk completely forgetting I had a KEY on my key chain that would have worked just fine.

 

[lovemygoofy]

The other day our coffee bean grinder died. I had no idea how to make coffee without the grinder. I took some beans and wrapped in a towel and beat the snot out of them until small enough to make some sort of coffee.

I was in the car the other day and liked a song on the radio and tried to hit the replay button like on the tivo.

 

[ChrizJen]

I was in the car the other day and liked a song on the radio and tried to hit the replay button like on the tivo.

I do that ALL the time!!

 

[cybrkitn]

We have a DVR downstairs from our satelite provider and just the box hooked into our tv - no DVR. When DH and I are watching tv in our room, he will sometimes try to "pause" it, forgetting that we don't have the DVR in our room. He has also gotten used to fast forwarding through commercials (b/c of the DVR) that he sometimes forgets that we are "live"

 

[Deb Quen of Colorado]

I heard a busy signal the other day when I made a phone call....... It took me a second to figure out what that sound was. Just too used to voice mail I suppose.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I remember when I had to actually get up and walk all the way across the room to change channels. Talk about hardship, I can even remember when i would have to stand there a while slowly rotating the channel nob until I could settle on a show to watch and we only had about 11 channels. Staying home from school meant nothing was on and Saturday morning cartoons were not to be missed because after 12 there was nothing to do but go out and find friends. Sunday there was nothing to do at all expect, gasp, talk to people.

I can also remember a time when tuning in the radio meant standing at my bedroom window and fiddling with the nob and antenna until I got the right station.

My favorite was the roll up windows in a car, I do miss that sometimes.

Ahh, the good old days.... my good old days were the 1970's & 1980's.

 

[minkydog]

I remember when I had to actually get up and walk all the way across the room to change channels. Talk about hardship, I can even remember when i would have to stand there a while slowly rotating the channel nob until I could settle on a show to watch and we only had about 11 channels.

Ahh, the good old days.... my good old days were the 1970's & 1980's.

Mine too. But I didn't have to bother turning the knob. I'd just call my baby sister. "Hey, Libby! Come 'ere!" (trot,trot trot) "Yeah, change the channel for me while you're up." And she'd DO IT.

 

[erincon23]

It's amazing how quickly we come to depend on all those little things! I've done the key/key fob thing... We have two TVs with TiVo, and one without -- man, I miss it on the third -- that's the one in the office where I spend most of my time. That's the FIRST thing I'm getting when I have 50 extra bucks! But we dropped all satellite movie channels and have just the basic satellite package -- don't miss the movies at all. And I find the regular radio in the car is just enough -- not that I get to listen to what I want to hear much at all...

 

[MIGrandma]

I remember when I had to actually get up and walk all the way across the room to change channels.

And having to go OUTSIDE to change the antenna by hand so the channel you ended up deciding to watch would come in better.

 

[Handbag Lady]

My new-to-me car doesn't have a hole in the doors for a key to unlock the door.

Yet, I keep trying to open it without hitting the key fob. One day, there will be a hole there by hook or by crook!

 

[WDWBarb]

I've driven a Prius for 7 years now and it has the proximity key (much more common now - as long as the key is somewhere on me the doors will unlock and the car will turn on). My dad handed me the keys to his car today and I looked at them like I didn't even know what they were. He asked if I needed some sort of explanation.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I definitely remember getting up to change the channel, and the first remotes we did have were called "clickers".

Did anyone live where you only had to dial the last 5 digits for a local phone number?

 

[jenlynn0808]

I definitely remember getting up to change the channel, and the first remotes we did have were called "clickers".

Did anyone live where you only had to dial the last 5 digits for a local phone number?

Sort of...in college(early 90s) if we wanted to call another room in our dorm we only had to dial the room number, another room in a different dorm had to be the actual ph number and to call off campus we had to dial 9 then the number. To call home, I had to dial 9, then 1-area code-phone number...11 digits, god forbid the phone missed a number as you dialed and had to start all over!

 

[WDWBarb]

I definitely remember getting up to change the channel, and the first remotes we did have were called "clickers".

My dad always told me that this is why grown-ups had kids - so someone would change the channel.

Did anyone live where you only had to dial the last 5 digits for a local phone number?

Sure did, but it was actually only the last 4 digits. I think my small town was that way as recently as a decade ago.

 

[ilovejack02]

We are thinking about dropping our satellite channels down to the lower tier. We would lose the Sirius radio channels and I was thinking I would really miss them-then I remembered I could turn on the radio

I went to get something out of the trunk of DH's car a while ago, grabbed my keys and went out into the garage and found the car locked. I went back into the house to get his key fob remote to open the trunk completely forgetting I had a KEY on my key chain that would have worked just fine.

We canceled Sirius last year and I miss it . I find myself not turning on the radio because I can't stand the commercials and the crap music.

 

[brenalexacamp]

Loved my sirius- gave it up last year-figured i'd try with out it and see if i could live- I can, I use my ipod. I do miss the comedy but so much of it was repeats. I have been using itunes radio on my computer too. Pretty good. maybe someday again.

 

[landshark]

When writing or drawing and I make a mistake, my mind instantly thinks "Ctrl+Z" and I actually have to pause and think about how to correct the mistake without it.

I've tried to go without my Sirius radio, but I find I can't. I spend so much time driving to and from work and my parents' that I just can't stand that much local radio. I've got tons of CDs, but those get boring eventually, too.

 

[kacaju]

Did anyone live where you only had to dial the last 5 digits for a local phone number?

I don't remember that, but my Aunt Lived in NY State and her first 3 digits (after the area code) were OR9 To this day I have no idea what the numbers are for OR. Whenever we said her phone number we always said OR9

 

[pennymom]

I don't remember that, but my Aunt Lived in NY State and her first 3 digits (after the area code) were OR9 To this day I have no idea what the numbers are for OR. Whenever we said her phone number we always said OR9

In the Philadelphia neighbor hood I grew up in, I remember that the first two 'digits' of phone numbers were either DE (Delaware) or MA (Mayfair). Ours was MA4-##### and my grandparents was DE3-####. I had forgotten about that!

At the Jersey shore as a kid, we could just dial the last four digits of the phone number to call anyone on the island.

 

[SaraJayne]

I heard a busy signal the other day when I made a phone call....... It took me a second to figure out what that sound was. Just too used to voice mail I suppose.

My 9 year old DD made a phone call a couple weeks ago and handed me the phone, saying "Mom, the phone is making a funny beeping sound."

I took the phone (thinking there was something wrong), listened, cracked up laughing and said "honey, that's the busy signal."

She was like what is that?