Or unlocking a car door, from the outside. True story (so I’m told) Woman standing beside car asking if anyone might carry her to convenience store. Batteries in her car ‘keys’ had died and unable to unlock door.
We become rapidly acclimated to the small conveniences used each day and totally lose ourselves in the new methods, expecting them to always be there for us. And those SMART phones. Attempt to remember the phone numbers of the people close to you (parents, sister, best friend) Few of us would be able to repeat these unless we ‘checked our phone’
We rely on devices for that which we should know.
CottonBall - it’s doubtful most children even know what a dial is. We no longer have these on most phones, TV has lost their old dial. Radio dial is seldom used with stations coded and a button pressed. Ranges have buttons and perhaps a dial seldom used.
that’s true about dials. Yet we still say “turn the channel”. Or maybe just i do.
I remember my grandma talking about ice boxes long after they were gone. Old habits!
Yes life will be a surprise to many if/when TSHTF. I was just talking to a neighbor here - the holler didn’t get electricity until after WWII and wasn’t paved until the 60’s. His dad married someone from the next holler over because they rarely got to town to meet people. He said his grandparents didn’t even notice the depression, because their life didn’t change at all. They always grew and raised everything they needed, and bought things only occasionally.
“Or unlocking a car door, from the outside. True story (so I’m told) Woman standing beside car asking if anyone might carry her to convenience store. Batteries in her car ‘keys’ had died and unable to unlock door.”
I had a friend who was as stupid-——we had lunch and were approaching her car and it wouldn’t open with the remote and she almost cried——how was she going to get home-——I told her to use the key,just like the old days.
I then said it was probably the battery,she said that she didn’t know there was a battery, I asked her if she thought that there was a little Gremlin inside to make her door open.
She said,”What’s a Gremlin?”
I gave up.
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