21.
Checking the pay phone change return for any forgotten coins.
22.
How we got around without GPS navigation.
23.
The frustration of cassette tapes getting mangled.
24.
Having to properly time getting a drink and snack before the ad break on TV finished. I still sweat thinking about it.
25.
Maybe not universal. But how to entertain yourself with your mind and nothing else.
I’ve noticed something about my friends/people i know in parenting culture where it’s now a crime for a child to be bored. When I was a kid my parents laughed and told me to go away when I said I was bored.
26.
Why we say “hang up” the phone
27.
Cranking the rear window in a car by hand
28.
missing an episode of a show meant MISSING IT FOREVER. There’s still an episode of “Battlestar Galactica” I never saw. I could go back and watch it now, but 10 year old me hurt like a gunshot wound for a long time after missing that thing.
29.
Getting lost in your car and just having to figure it out
30.
The difficulty of not being able to instantly find the answer to questions.
