I know why we still say “dial” a phone number.Liquor store clerk: I’m gonna need to see some age verification.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 7, 2021
Me: The @Mets have won the World Series during my lifetime.
Clerk: Enjoy your purchase, if not your team. https://t.co/0rPx5N7r8B
I remember all the major characters on “Captain Kangaroo, and most of the regular cartoons, too.
I am also old and grey and full of sleep, so I never get asked this question. My wife looks so much younger than me (the difference is 14 months. She looks easily 20 years younger than me.) a co-worker once asked who that “old guy” was he saw her with at lunch on a Saturday.
She might get carded. I won’t.
I'm so old we didn't have dials and had to give the operator the code name of the exchange we were calling. We were on a party line and the up the road neighbors used to listen in on our calls, why, I don't know, unless my older sisters had spicier lives than I knew of. I know my older brother didn't.
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