I recently came upon a site which listed skills that are now obselete, some of them only recently so. I plucked a few of the ones I found interesting for this entry. Enjoy!
Adjusting Rabbit Ears On Top Of aTV
Adjusting Horizontal And Vertical Holds on a TV
Be Kind-Rewind
Calling A Phone Sex Line
Calling Collect On A Payphone
Cash Register Used Manually Entering The Prices
Changing The Ribbon On A Typewriter
Converting Your Albums From Vinyl To Cassette Tape
Cuff Links
Dialing A Rotary Phone
Filing Cards In A Library Card Catalog
Finding Channels On UHF
Getting Off The Couch To Change Channels On Your TV Set
Having Your Gas Pumped For You And Your Oil Checked At A Full-service Gas Station
Kick Starting A Motorcycle
Knowing What Part Of Town Someone Lives In By Their Phone Exchange
Loading A Reel To Reel Tape Drive
Making An Operator Assisted Phone Call
Making Hot Chocolate By Heating Milk in a Pan, Then Adding Cocoa Powder and Sugar (remember the "skin" on the milk?)
Marriage (NOTE: This was actually on the list -- it isn't my addition)
Meeting People By Answering Personal Ads In A Newspaper Or Magazine
Opening A Can Of Beer Or Soda With A Church Key
Peeling The Developer Layer Off A Polaroid
Percolating Coffee
Placing A Coin On A Tonearm To Prevent Skipping
Popping Corn In A Pot With Oil
Porn Not From The Internet
Putting A Needle On A Vinyl Record
Rewinding An Audio Cassette Using A Bic Pen
Selling Something In The Classified Ads
Shave With A Straight Razor
Shorthand
Smelling A Freshly Mimeographed Test Paper
Switching To High Beams By Stomping On A Button In The Floor
Taking The Tape Out Of An Answering Machine
Testing TV Tubes At the Drugstore
Using Carbon Paper To Make Copies
Using Correction Fluid
Using A Party-line Telephone
Using A Pay Toilet
Feel free to add some of your own.
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4 comments:
I felt old after the first handful, then it got worse! Wow, we've seen a lot of progress. I'll add one: Rolling a car window down manually.
"Having Your Gas Pumped For You And Your Oil Checked At A Full-service Gas Station".....I miss that for a couple of reasons....One, I have no idea how to check my oil....two, .....damn there were some great fantasies that come out of that!
Thank goodness I can still roll down our windows, they are not power controlled. Also I still have a place that pumps gas, but they don't check the oil or air in the tires. And I still pop corn in a pop corn popper that has a handle you turn as you're popping to keep it from burning. You use 1/4 cup oil, 1/2 cup of corn, then I salt with popcorn salt after it's done popping. Pop corn salt is very fine. You know what, pop corn use to be delicious popped in lard.
I liked changing to high beams with my foot! And disabled people with handicapped plates still get full service in many self service stations. But I do have one to add... getting faxes with a fax machine. Our copy machines send and receive faxes. So does our Zetafax software. We don't have an actual fax.
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