Silver Bloggers Blog of the Month July 2022



And Beware: My posts are a Unique View Point and sometimes contain Sarcasm.
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There is a late but sure Blog of the Month in our Silver Bloggers Community. It made me smile, since lately i'm involved in conversations with exactly this topic... so here we go with a quicky!

The Theme:

Things, or memories, from (y)our youth that today's youth will not understand or have seen

^{The Call for this #BoM, you'll find by clicking on this text!}

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Chalkboard

In first grade, I was given a chalkboard to learn to write. I wrote hundreds of ABCs with it, until the teachers were satisfied with the result. Then, in the second grade, there were the first copybooks with enormously large squared writing aid lines. I still remember how we all waited impatiently for the sixth grade, because there were the copybooks with small square lines.

Memorizing Phone Numbers

In the same epoch, there was also the widespread speciality of knowing all the "important" telephone numbers by heart, in order to call family or friends if the worst came to the worst. For example, if the afternoon at a school friend's house took a little longer or you were waiting at the station to be picked up and no one came, we could call someone in a common telephone booth. I actually still remember my parents first phone number 7 21 25...

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Rotary Dial Phones / Phone Booths

In addition, the telephones at that time were equipped with rotary dials. These phones where our first technical "toys", also well suited for ending an unpleasant telephone conversation by "slamming" the receiver down on the phone with a lot of vigour. The person on the other side of the line could hear this act very well and knew right away that you didn't agree. Try that with one of today's mobile phones. :smirk:

Pager Beeper

A good bit later, when I got an assistant position on the job, I was given a pager, always worn on my belt. This probably first wireless "message receiver" made me into being meaningful to some, as mainly doctors, CEOs or other "important" personalities were equipped with these state of the art devices. "So that we can inform you when there is urgent business to be done!" - was one of the reasons given to me. And it was not the personal "urgent business" still known today. What a useless thing that was and it just ment more work... tsss!

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Which made me think...

Everything changes constantly and it took years of observation to understand my grandfather, who liked to throw his "favourite saying" around: "Everything was better in the past!" Not that I agree with him today, it's just easier to see how he came to that assumption.