11.
Calling the movie theatre to hear the recording with the movie times on it.
12.
When you left work you left work. There is an emergency? Oh well, I guess we can solve that problem tomorrow.
13.
The sheer joy of receiving a handwritten letter from someone you haven’t seen in a long time. I really miss the days when I had a nice stationery set, and I would write long letters to friends and relatives.
14.
Watching a draft lottery to see if your number would be low enough that you will be drafted to fight in a war in Asia
15.
Taking photos using those little rolls of film and having to take them into a shop for processing. You often wouldn’t know if any of the photos were good until a couple of months later.
You also had to manually wind on the camera after every shot.
16.
Picking up or saying goodbye to airline passengers right at the gate
17.
Hovering over your stereo with your fingers ready to hit play and record simultaneously while the radio DJ intros the song you’ve been dying to hear.
Recording movies straight off the TV onto VHS tapes and having the dedication to stop the recording to cut out the ads.
18.
Be kind rewind.
Smoking or nonsmoking
I left a message but I think the tape cut out.
So when should I call?
Get off the line!
I got to swing by and drop off some film.
I tried calling but I think he’s online right now.
Everything glass is brown and that’s normal.
19.
Making plans ahead of time (meet you in front of the theater at 8:25, okay?) and if said friend was late to show up, you had no idea what happened to them. No changing plans last minute, no finding out where they were, just you standing in the meeting place, wondering how long to wait, if you should just tell the ticket seller to let your friend know you’ll be inside etc… (we all had one of those friends).
20.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons with cereal.
