You start talking about something with someone else anywhere near their mid twenties and at some point or another you might accidentally use that type of phrase. You know the one.
- You can remember when petrol cost 60 cents a litre (or your local equivalent).
- You can remember when the milkman used to deliver glass bottles of milk to the door.
- You can remember when the internet was empty and boring.
- When you were a kid there were no mobile phones, handsets were still shackled to the wall and when someone couldn't contact you by phone they assumed you were just out instead of dead.
- When you did assignments at school we had to look in books and encyclopedias, there were very few electronic journals/books and no such thing as Wikipedia*.
You see!?
I can honestly remember saying to a friend something like "Pfft, these DVD things are never going to take off. What is everybody going to do? Get rid of all their VHS?"
*coff coff* Yes, well we all make mistakes. Nostradamus I am not.
I expect to be completely confused by the changing technology years before my 82-year old grandmother was and to have to ask younger relatives to give me a hand with my visual medium recorder** well before my mother had to.
See how advanced we are?
We're moving so fast my knowledge has become obsolete before I've even gotten to my midlife crisis!
And by the time I do I probably won't know how to operate my shiny new car!
*That bastion of reliability and truth
**I'm not going to date myself by naming the recording medium
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