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In reply to the discussion: My garage door just emailed me [View all]MuseRider
(34,109 posts)we needed another. We got a used car but it had quite a few perks with it. I now sit on the stage after rehearsal, start my car with my phone and when I get in is warm and toasty. It also has seat warmers, I have never had those before and quite frankly I would crank my car to start it before I would give up the seat warmers. We have not done up our house. We decided that we are pretty lax with our phones and Internet, we do what they tell us to do so it feels ok but bugging our house is not something we care to do. There are some perks there, some really nice perks but nope.
I do not remember crank phones in our homes but I do remember seeing them on vacation in a dusty little town in Oklahoma we used to stop in. Air conditioners were not everywhere. I seem to remember Sputnik but I was only 4, I mostly remember the worry about the communists beating us into space.
I gotta say, I love so much of what we have now. My grandparents are now gone but they went from before cars were used by most people, no airplanes and I have to laugh with amazement how things change over our lives and we really do not spend enough time realizing the good parts and the bad parts.
My car bosses me around but so far my house is not complaining. Enjoy!