<p>I find it difficult to understand how people comprehend segments of time if it isn’t related to an analog clock. Quarters, halves, clockwise and counter-clockwise aren’t going away for me in my lifetime.</p>
<p>Ones my mom used that my kids wouldn’t know–davenport and front room. Great to remember all the others. Remember how we hated to dial long-distance that had a lot of large numbers? Not that we were ever actually allowed to use long-distance…That 0 was a killer. S1 and 2, ages 23 and 21, still have a difficult time knowing when to use a 1before the number (as in land line).</p>
<p>Oh, I used "catch as catch can " one eve regarding dinner. My son still brings this up, repeating it in some crazy voice that I guess is supposed to sound like me. </p>
<p>Just today, I said something was happening “to beat the band”. My daughter wanted to know if that was a saying…I guess she wanted to be sure I wasn’t just totally losing my ability to make sense.</p>
<p>I learned several years ago that you can’t show a picture of a covered wagon train with the caption “Westward, Ho!” to your fifth graders. They may not understand entirely what a Ho refers to now, but know it’s not school appropriate.</p>
<p>My kids will never know the smell of a freshly mimeographed quiz, laid over your nose while you tilted back your head before passing it back to the next kid in the row.</p>
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<p>Ahhh memories…gosh I wonder if it gave any of us cancer or any other issues???</p>
<p>When the kids were young and we were walking somewhere, I told them to “pick up the pace”. They proceeded to look around on the ground for something to pick up.</p>
<p>" When my aunt was trying to get my cousin to behave, Aunt threatened to knock Cousin into the middle of next week (bet that would get a call from Social Service now!)</p>
<p>Some of these things are amazing. Not knowing what an area code is? In my home town, you have to dial the area code on a land line even if you’re calling your next door neighbor. It’s not just kids - I’ve asked adult customers at work for their area code and they give me their zip code. I do think there is some kind of disconnect with explaining to younger people to dial 9 before a number (and don’t forget the 1). Some of the younger people at my work understand that they have to do that to call someone but can never manage to work the fax machine - they always forget the 9-1 in front of the number. </p>
<p>Who knows, maybe in 20 years kids will be saying “what’s a land line?”</p>
<p>My moms biggest one would have to be “eggs loaded”. Apparently when a car is driving slow it’s driving eggs loaded - meaning very slow because it is loaded with eggs and they have to drive slow not to crack them. I don’t know where on earth she ever came up with that one but she insists it’s a saying.</p>
<p>notrichenough, I had to laugh at your comment because at my dentist the other month I noticed an old wall calendar with a phone number of Town9-1268. The funny thing was I used to work at the store that published the calendar. It was so neat that they had it hanging there - the store went out of business about 7 or 8 years ago after like 60 some years in business… small mom and pop store.</p>
<p>When I was very young, we didn’t even use the two digit prefix in my hometown, because everyone had the same first two numbers… Represented by “redwood”. So we only dialed the last five digits. 6-5432. It was a big deal when the day came that we had to also dial the 73 in front. 736-5432. The northern half of the state shared the same area code, so I didn’t have to add that when calling home until I left for college.</p>
<p>The phone number I just used is showing up in blue. I made it up. As far as I know it isn’t a real number :)</p>
<p>I had one area code in elementary school and then it changed to another one about half way through because they were redistributing the area codes. Then in junior high what happened was they came up with yet another new area code for our area, in addition to the one we had already (which mind you, had just been changed a few years earlier), so neighbors could have different area codes on both sides of their house depending on where they lived. When that new area code came out they changed it so that you had to dial the full 10 digit number. We got a good laugh when my family and I went for 3 cell phones back in the day and we came out with 3 different area codes.</p>
<p>My H invented an expression to stump them. When texting began, he got tired of them poking fun that he didn’t know this or that abbreviation…BRB, TTYL and so forth. So he answered several emails with a single word: “IITL.” They went nuts trying to figure out what it meant, consulted each other, but nobody could get it. He wouldn’t tell them for days. Finally he wrote: It Is To Laugh.</p>
<p>When D (now almost 21) was in first or second grade, she had to read a poem that described the snow-capped fence posts as resembling dunce caps. When I explained what a dunce cap was, D was horrified and couldn’t believe teachers would treat students that way.</p>
<p>I tell my kids when I was in college, we had one phone for our hallway of 20 girls. Of course we waited until 11 pm to call home, because that’s whenthe rates went down.</p>
<p>Jay Leno did a “Jaywalking – Finish this phrase” a while back that was hysterical. YouTube it if you’re interested. </p>
<p>I was with a group of teenagers the other day, and one of them sassed off to me with a sort of “look at how smart I am” remark. Funny thing was, he was completely incorrect. Naturally, I corrected him and finished with, “So put that in your pipe and smoke it.” He looked at me as if I had just told him to do drugs. Uh…I guess I should be a bit more careful about what I say! :D</p>