May 18th, 2007
Friday Funny
Yesterday evening, I was playing Princess Monopoly for the gazillionth time with my 4 year old daughter. Jason had just finished his bath and asked if he could play on the computer till we finished our game. We said sure, but he had to use the computer in his room (no Internet access). He was bummed, but didn’t complain. When he came out to the living room after about 15 minutes, he looked at me and Dan and said “Ya know, that was fun. But I sure wish I could have used the computer downstairs since mine doesn’t have Internet.”
And then it happened . . . I looked right at him without thinking and said “Buddy, you’re 6 - when I was 6, they didn’t even HAVE the Internet.” He looked at me in total disbelief and said “For serious? Whoooaaaaaa!”
I guess it’s just more proof that mom and dad come from “the olden days.”
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We often list all the things that have come into existence in our lifetimes and how we can remember what it was like before them:
~ Touch tone phones
~ Microwave ovens
~ Video arcades (once there were only pinball machines)
~ Pong/Atari
~ Cablevision
~ VCR/VHS and now DVD and DVR
~ Walkmans (cassette/CD/and now digital music players)
~ Cell phones
~ Home Computers
~ Playstation/XBox/now Wii
Which reminds me. I was hanging out with my nephews on a beautiful spring day a month ago and asked if they would like to go in the backyard and toss around the football (that I had bought them for Christmas) and they said, “Nah. We’ve got Wii for football.”