What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?
What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?
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How to make a call using a land line phone. That made me feel very old.
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Push-button phone or (gasp) rotary?
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Just regular push button. He dialed the number and then just stared at the phone waiting for it to do something. Hand set was still in the cradle.
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Use either the same way by just using the button/cradle for the handset.
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I've also heard that kids have difficulties with reading analog clocks.
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Honestly makes me wonder if kids have trouble reading gauges in their cars
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Ha most gauged these days are purely digital too, for newer vehicles at least.
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That's an older one tho, most places had already transitioned to mainly digital when I was in school many many moons ago, I can read an analog clock but it takes a minute to think about it, whereas I'd assume being more ingrained you'd be much quicker at telling the time.
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Out of curiosity, where/when was that? All my schools (in the northeast U.S., in the 90s and 00s) had analog clocks in every classroom. I remember them vividly, as I'd spent many an hour staring at them, wishing they'd move faster.
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2000's to 2010's It transitioned over time, I remember my elementary school had a small tube TV in each classroom that had a slideshow with school related news and always displayed the time digitally, but several of the classrooms also had analog clocks, I assume now that was if the teacher chose to put one in there as decor?
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One of my favorite games did an update themed around 1999. The number of times I had to explain the concept of a pager...
it wasn't even that long ago! I can't be old yet!
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