11.
Not being able to watch whatever you wanted whenever you wanted. We actually had to look up the shows schedule in a TV guide and be available when it came on.
12.
Hows about not knowing who was calling… was it your crush? your grandma? a telemarketer??? It’s like a game show every time the phone rings
13.
Having to rewind the tape before returning it to the video store or else incurring a fee.
14.
How to use the card catalog in the library — the ones with the cards in the drawers.
15.
“Can so-and-so come out to play?”
16.
Having a three-ring binder of CDs for road trips.
17.
That there used to be nine planets in the solar system.
18.
Circling pictures of toys in the Sears catalog as a Christmas list. My brother and my cousin would do this every year at my grandma’s house. We also put our initials so our parents knew who wanted what toy.
19.
Meeting up with a friend at the movies and having no way to communicate once you’ve left the house. Your friend doesn’t show. Is he coming? Should I continue to wait and stand at the precise spot we agreed on? Has he died? Did he forget? I’ll call home using a pay phone and hope my mom is there to tell me whether he left a message on the answering machine.
20.
A thing called encyclopedias
