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MuseRider

(34,109 posts)
28. Someone totaled my car so
Tue Dec 24, 2019, 06:46 PM
Dec 2019

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!

I remember most of those things, too. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2019 #1
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" DBoon Dec 2019 #2
Just remember to down load the mega pixels from the Skype interface using the cloud in real time Botany Dec 2019 #3
What is this hard drive you speak of... lapfog_1 Dec 2019 #4
It has to do with a mobile App Botany Dec 2019 #7
Those were the days! burrowowl Dec 2019 #15
I don't want an appliance Ohiogal Dec 2019 #5
Thanks for the memories...nt N_E_1 for Tennis Dec 2019 #6
I remember the first time True Blue American Dec 2019 #8
My Niece's Dishwasher Texted Her On Thanksgiving... JimGinPA Dec 2019 #9
Dear JimGinPA's niece TlalocW Dec 2019 #17
My car told me the battery in my starter fob needed replaced. Thomas Hurt Dec 2019 #10
My car told me the same thing a while back. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2019 #11
I see posts all the time on FB about "the good ole days" Ferrets are Cool Dec 2019 #12
technology advances aside Dukkha Dec 2019 #16
Ding, Ding, we have a winna!!! Ferrets are Cool Dec 2019 #24
Would you rather get home and discover "battery dead - garage door heavy"? nt JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2019 #13
My first "real" job was running an IBM 407, punch card tabulating machine. 3Hotdogs Dec 2019 #14
Skylab crashed to earth last century. nt Esra Star Dec 2019 #19
Then it the ghost of skylab I see every few weeks. --- does look a bit blurry. 3Hotdogs Dec 2019 #22
Probably the ISS. TrogL Dec 2019 #39
It is. And I have taken my grandkids to see it when it flies overhead. 3Hotdogs Dec 2019 #40
As long as there is an automatic manual override. eom LarryNM Dec 2019 #18
I recently had to get a new garage door opener ... aggiesal Dec 2019 #20
That's cool. nt Wawannabe Dec 2019 #30
My belly laugh for the day! Canoe52 Dec 2019 #21
Ask you lazy ass garage door... JohnnyRingo Dec 2019 #23
Can't turn in a favorite lamp without uttering 7 words lostnfound Dec 2019 #25
no, all hail our robotic overlords. Afromania Dec 2019 #26
My cat's litterpan can send me alerts janterry Dec 2019 #27
Someone totaled my car so MuseRider Dec 2019 #28
... Wawannabe Dec 2019 #29
Welcome to IOT (the internet of things). hay rick Dec 2019 #31
I saw Sputnik when I was 6. 3catwoman3 Dec 2019 #32
The Older We Get..... colsohlibgal Dec 2019 #33
I didn't buy the gas range that had WiFi central scrutinizer Dec 2019 #34
I think my new watch is fat shaming me... Thyla Dec 2019 #35
Is Your Phone or Watch Constantly Buzzing? It Could Be in Your Head. question everything Dec 2019 #36
If cities were built like computer programs... Ron Obvious Dec 2019 #37
I love my new WiFi garage door opener! Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2019 #38
The WiFi on my garage door stopped working a couple of years ago Major Nikon Dec 2019 #41
Ask Alexa CabalPowered Dec 2019 #42
No I refuse to let one in the house TrogL Dec 2019 #43
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