She Ain’t What She Used to Be
Things just ain’t the same. Just thinking about old times and something that is extinct. We have raised our family of four and lived in the same house for nearly 60 years and there are shoe boxes full of photos from the past. Shoe boxes, plastic tubs, and albums, most of them not marked.
Every now and then someone gets out the old photos and has a good chuckle. Nowadays folks seldom make a copy of a photo, they stay in your phone and I don’t know what happens to them, but they are probably lost. In the old days we had real books. The same is true with ebooks, what happens to them after they are read?
Sunday I went to graduation party and they had Polaroid cameras on a table for you to use, and take a picture of your group. We took a couple pictures but I don’t remember anyone taking them as they left. It took forever to develop the pictures, and then they were quite small, only a couple of inches.
It aroused my curiosity to check Amazon and you can buy one with a roll of film for 30 bucks. Guess I got to get me one.
There is still nothing like a shoe box of old photos, or an album, that you can get out and have a good chuckle. The same is true for newspapers. If there is an article you want to keep, you can physically put it away. If you put it on your phone probably no one will ever see it. My phone keeps giving a message that says it is full and I won’t be able to receive messages. Don’t know what that’s all about, and I don’t know if anyone has that problem.
My children keep telling me I need to use a laptop, and I have one but I don’t even remember how to turn it on. It had a mouse and I never learned to use it without a mouse. I’m not even sure what happened to the mouse but I’m sure it’s around. Just saying, not all changes are better, but I guess there will be changes.
I resisted getting a smart phone for many years, but now I can’t believe all the ways I use it. I think I would be completely lost without a phone and I keep it on me day and night. I think we older folk, tend to resist change. I know everyone is a creature of habit. Well I guess I must go look for my mouse.
—James Neuhouser
