Why I’ve Stopped Laughing At “Kids” Who Don’t Know How To Use a Rotary Dial Phone

Because I’m no better.

Looks just like the one my grandmother had on her desk in the living room. Wikipedia Creative Commons, (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ask me how many times it took me to write out an envelope for my mother. Go ahead. Guess. I’ll wait.

I went through three envelopes before I got it “close enough” so that the mail carrier wouldn’t return it. Three. Times.

WTH?

Now ask me when was the last time I had to address an envelope.

I can’t tell you, so you’d have to kill me. I have no need to own envelopes, let alone use them.

• I have direct deposit.
• I have auto-bill pay.
• I send e-greeting cards.

So when do I ever need to remember how to use one? Email. Online contact forms on websites. Instant messaging. Everything I do, I do online. I have literally forgotten how to write.

That should be scary.

I guess if I thought about it long enough it would be but since I have to finish typing this article on my Google Chrome Notebook, and then toggle back over to the story I had been working on, so I can then check my email to update my calendar of my next Zoom meeting; I really don’t have the time!