This is Classic. A 17 year old dealing with stuff
It made me feel really smart and really old.
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OK...Not really fair. Imagine if you have never even seen a rotary dial phone...heard about them, seen pictures maybe, but never actually seen or touched one. Now pretend you are 17.
And 72%* of Americans over 50 cannot refold a road map into its original configuration once it is fully unfolded.
*Also, 79.6% of all statistics are made up.
And 72%* of Americans over 50 cannot refold a road map into its original configuration once it is fully unfolded.
*Also, 79.6% of all statistics are made up.
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Matt, that was very funny. We had the same experience a few years ago. One of my son's friends was over our house and wanted to call his mom. We handed him the dial phone we have in the basement. He said, "Can you call her, I don't know how to use this."
If you think this is funny ask most Millenials if they know how to drive a manual transmission. Most will say yes, it's the levers on the steering wheel. Put them in a car with a real manual transmission and they're lost. They don't know where to get started and have no idea what a clutch pedal is for.
Out of fairness though, I could never refold a map either.
If you think this is funny ask most Millenials if they know how to drive a manual transmission. Most will say yes, it's the levers on the steering wheel. Put them in a car with a real manual transmission and they're lost. They don't know where to get started and have no idea what a clutch pedal is for.
Out of fairness though, I could never refold a map either.
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Matt, that was very funny. We had the same experience a few years ago. One of my son's friends was over our house and wanted to call his mom. We handed him the dial phone we have in the basement. He said, "Can you call her, I don't know how to use this."
If you think this is funny ask most Millenials if they know how to drive a manual transmission. Most will say yes, it's the levers on the steering wheel. Put them in a car with a real manual transmission and they're lost. They don't know where to get started and have no idea what a clutch pedal is for.
Out of fairness though, I could never refold a map either.
If you think this is funny ask most Millenials if they know how to drive a manual transmission. Most will say yes, it's the levers on the steering wheel. Put them in a car with a real manual transmission and they're lost. They don't know where to get started and have no idea what a clutch pedal is for.
Out of fairness though, I could never refold a map either.
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OK...Not really fair. Imagine if you have never even seen a rotary dial phone...heard about them, seen pictures maybe, but never actually seen or touched one. Now pretend you are 17.
And 72%* of Americans over 50 cannot refold a road map into its original configuration once it is fully unfolded.
*Also, 79.6% of all statistics are made up.
And 72%* of Americans over 50 cannot refold a road map into its original configuration once it is fully unfolded.
*Also, 79.6% of all statistics are made up.
I agree on the map though, used them all the time back in the day... usually managed to f*** them up when I tried refolding them :P Not hard if you take your time, but normaly done while in the car with it all opened up across the dash!
We had a rotary phone for a while, but got a cordless phone when I was about 7 or 8. But we did have a party line still at that time since we lived out in the middle of BFE!
But as of this thread, I think 79.600000001% of statistics are made up.