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Now thats funny. I remember when they sold cigarettes in machines.
I remember when there was no white out, you had those little white sheets you had to back up the typewriter and type over this white paper the same letter that was a mistake to blot it out.
I remember using a typing eraser and having to erase sometimes 6 carbon copies for every mistake I made while typing. When I first started typing the typewriters were manual. Do people still do Dictaphones? Then there were master copies typed and you had to print from them. Xerox came later.
My husband remembers when you picked up the telephone and the operator said, "Number please." His baby brother told the operator he wanted to speak to Daddy and the operator knew which number his dad worked at so she dialed him. I don't remember that because I didn't have a telephone until I was in high school and there were dial phones by then, but a party line and we had a shut-in neighbor who listened into all the calls that were made. We didn't mind because she was lonely. She didn't say anything; she just listened.
I (and many others on this forum) are old enough to remember when civility in the public arena was expected and rude, disrespectful behavior was condemned by all. Today we have high profile people--entertainers, athletes, politicians, corporate world figures, etc.--who suffer no consequences for their hateful behavior. An example--the editor of Teen Vogue will be condemned by some for her hateful attack upon Billy Graham yesterday but will she lose her job and not be able to find another one? Not in today's world. I absolutely deplore the decline in public civility seen--and accepted--today.
I remember using a typing eraser and having to erase sometimes 6 carbon copies for every mistake I made while typing. When I first started typing the typewriters were manual. Do people still do Dictaphones? Then there were master copies typed and you had to print from them. Xerox came later.
My husband remembers when you picked up the telephone and the operator said, "Number please." His baby brother told the operator he wanted to speak to Daddy and the operator knew which number his dad worked at so she dialed him. I don't remember that because I didn't have a telephone until I was in high school and there were dial phones by then, but a party line and we had a shut-in neighbor who listened into all the calls that were made. We didn't mind because she was lonely. She didn't say anything; she just listened.
I remember all these things, too--the carbon copies, the erasers, Dictaphones, party lines--even the term "shut-in" to describe an old person unable to leave their house on their own. Today these people are called "home bound".
I (and many others on this forum) are old enough to remember when civility in the public arena was expected and rude, disrespectful behavior was condemned by all. Today we have high profile people--entertainers, athletes, politicians, corporate world figures, etc.--who suffer no consequences for their hateful behavior. An example--the editor of Teen Vogue will be condemned by some for her hateful attack upon Billy Graham yesterday but will she lose her job and not be able to find another one? Not in today's world. I absolutely deplore the decline in public civility seen--and accepted--today.
I guess I'm old enough to remember when my stomach could have taken that combination at the same time and even enjoyed it.
The good old days: when I could eat a hot dog with everything and not suffer any consequences.
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