Things that are archaic

[monster]

Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by monster

Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird.

Denial. Not just a river in Africa...

[glatt]

Our car doesn't have power windows. It's funny when we give rides to other kids. Some of them can't figure out how to roll down the window. They have to ask one of our kids how to do it.

[monster]

Originally Posted by glatt

Our car doesn't have power windows. It's funny when we give rides to other kids. Some of them can't figure out how to roll down the window. They have to ask one of our kids how to do it.

one of ours doesn't. Thor was so excited to manually wind down the Window! (he's too little to sit in the front and it's a 2-door, so he was just passing time and wondering what the windy things were....

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

We still have plenty of pay phones here. Probably not as many as there used to be, but still plenty about.

Ditto the UK - I can see the one we used to use before we had a telephone from this very room.

Archaic are cars without power steering over here. The only one I know of that's still registered for the road is my fathers '76 land cruiser.

I have never owned a car with power steering yet. Then again I sold my last car a good five years ago.

Originally Posted by monster

Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird.

Yup. Just on Friday one of the boys was telling me about his new Ben 10 poster. We weren't allowed to put anything on the walls, but Dads made us two huge corkboards from leftover tiles. My sister's mostly had official posters of men she fancied, mine had poems, things I'd traced from '20s and '30s fashion magazines and pictures of models from Just Seventeen. And cats. In a film or a novel I would have become a stylist. Or a lesbian.