Still More of What We Miss

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Things we miss:

  • Paper concert tickets. Thick enough to survive a wallet and you could keep them for years as a memento

  • Not constantly monitoring yourself, worrying about caffeine or sugar or steps or sleep

  • Being unreachable for entire afternoons

  • Refrigerators that lasted 30 years

  • Washing machines that didn’t connect to Wi-Fi

  • Bench seats in cars You could slide across, sit three people in front, and feel like you were in a living room going 60 miles an hour

  • Short cartoons before the movie went on

And more things we definitely do not miss:

  • Having to write in cursive

  • Camera film you didn’t know was ruined and unusable until a week after you brought it into the drugstore

  • Televisions with rabbit ears

  • Opening or closing car windows by hand

  • Clunky dress shoes that needed “breaking in”

  • Having only three TV channels

  • Ashtrays everywhere

  • Ice cube trays you had to wrestle With

    What Do You Miss? And What Don’t You Miss? Let Us Know by Commenting below or emailing us here.

Neil Offen

Neil Offen, one of the editors of this site, is the author of Building a Better Boomer, a hilarious guide to how baby boomers can better see, hear, exercise, eat, sleep and retire better. He has been a humor columnist for four decades and on two continents. A longtime journalist, he’s also been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, written a nationally syndicated funny comic strip and been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he is, as well, the man behind several critically acclaimed supermarket shopping lists. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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