The Friday Five
1. When was the last time you wrote a check at a store?
Maybe 15 years ago? Probably longer.
2. When was the last time you looked up something in a book?
Yesterday. I love my books, especially my rare and out-of-print cookbooks (which is what I was using yesterday).
3. When was the last time you used a rotary/dial phone?
I think it might have been just before we moved to Germany in 1977 and didn't have a phone for several years. By the time we got one, the world had moved to push buttons. I remember looking at one in early university, but I think they were retro even then, so I don't recall that I actually purchased one. If I did, it was certainly abandoned by the time I moved home with my parents in 1985.
4. When was the last time you played cards with actual paper cards?
At my old cottage, with my kids, I think. I have been divorced for 8 years, so some time before that.
5. When was the last time you talked to a stranger?
Yesterday, at the year-end dance show at my daughter's school. There were two very polite young men who came to sit beside me, then left to join friends. Their seats were then taken by a quiet couple about my age, who chatted briefly. On my other side was a lady with a purse as big as mine, who turned out to have a daughter in my daughter's class. We managed to keep an empty seat between us to store our purses.
Maybe 15 years ago? Probably longer.
2. When was the last time you looked up something in a book?
Yesterday. I love my books, especially my rare and out-of-print cookbooks (which is what I was using yesterday).
3. When was the last time you used a rotary/dial phone?
I think it might have been just before we moved to Germany in 1977 and didn't have a phone for several years. By the time we got one, the world had moved to push buttons. I remember looking at one in early university, but I think they were retro even then, so I don't recall that I actually purchased one. If I did, it was certainly abandoned by the time I moved home with my parents in 1985.
4. When was the last time you played cards with actual paper cards?
At my old cottage, with my kids, I think. I have been divorced for 8 years, so some time before that.
5. When was the last time you talked to a stranger?
Yesterday, at the year-end dance show at my daughter's school. There were two very polite young men who came to sit beside me, then left to join friends. Their seats were then taken by a quiet couple about my age, who chatted briefly. On my other side was a lady with a purse as big as mine, who turned out to have a daughter in my daughter's class. We managed to keep an empty seat between us to store our purses.