I thought about the bicentennial (Spirit of 1976) today. And I was thinking how my 5th grade class made such a huge deal of the country turning 200!! Then I realized........... "I'm old".
What things do you remember now that make you feel old???
They tell me that too. I refer to new music still as albums. I'll say to Kaisha, "Did you hear the new songs on the _____ album?".... she just shakes her head, and says "it's a CD now Mom."
Or how I can remember having to watch "Lawrence Welk" at my grandmother's house when I was there on Saturdays...... and they weren't reruns either.
The fact that my own younger sister doesn't believe 64 oz bottles of soda were once made of glass. Or that you saved your glass bottles that came in 8 packs to return them for a dime a peice.
She never owned a vinyl record. She never had to talk on a phone that was tethered to the wall with a cord. She doesn't believe the first remote control we ever had for the TV included a long wire that actually attached the two.
She doesn't remember when we had three channels and they all went off the air around 1:30 AM leaving us with nothing but fuzz to watch.
Computers were non-existant when I was a child. So were cell phones. Hell, even when I was 20 years old if someone had a cell phone you assumed they were a doctor.
My mom and dads stereo was bigger than a coffin but had only a turntable, an8-track, and an AM/FM tuner inside of it.
