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Feeling old and technologically we Todd Ed.

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Feeling old and technologically we Todd Ed.

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There's a new machine at the BX. 

It's a DVD rental machine.

Using the touch screen you choose the movie that you want (I got 'Meet The Fockers' because I liked the prequel), you swipe your bank or credit card, pay the $1.53 rental fee (cheap!!), and the machine spits out your DVD from a little slot in the front.  You can return the movie the same way.

So me and my friend were part of a little crowd of stay-at-home moms and wives surrounding this machine today, oohing and aaahing over how cool it was, when some kid (as in one-striper; he was probably all of 19 or 20) walks past and sniffs "oh we've had those for years in California.  That's nothing......".

I feel old and technolgically wee-todd-ed now.  I feel like my parents must have felt when me and my brother tried to show them how to work the VCR or program digital watches. 

I get excited over silly things....like DVD rental machines and coffee pots without carafes, cell phones with cameras in them and cars with On-Star.  Those things are wonderous to me....because I grew up in an age where we simply didn't have things like that.  Heck, cassette platers were hip when I was growing up.  CD's hadn't even been heard of, cell phones were huge, brick-like contraptions and computers were green text only...no pictures, and no internet.

My age is showing, and I don't like it.

 

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
To use an old phrase..."I've got socks older than that"!

I've been having sex for almost as long as she's been alive. That mkes me feel reall, really, really old. And, that's scary!


But I have corns older! You are welcome to them!

EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!! I have one of those shavers for that! Does the trick very nicely!

and the first push button phone (a real novelty when they came out).

Heheh...my dad was quote perturbed when that happened. He had got a lock for the rotary phone, and then the push button ones came out and he had to think of another way to stop us making calls! Come to think of it, I don't know why he got the lock in the first place because it's not like we made a lot of calls....we were too scared to do ANYTHING without permission. For those of you who don't know, in England you have to pay for all of your calls, not just long distance ones.

Dharma, what do you mean by 'we Todd Ed'?

Hehehe.....you've already figured it out, but try saying this: "I'm Sofa King. We, Todd, Ed."

Just google "Japan vending machines" and read what they have.


I did, and HOLY CATS!!!!!!!!!!!! They just LOVE vending machines, huh????
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
When I was in the service we had vending machines all over the base that sold only one product; beer. There were beer machines in the laundromat, our quarters, pretty much everywhere. But hey, it was the Navy.
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

When I was in the service we had vending machines all over the base that sold only one product; beer. There were beer machines in the laundromat, our quarters, pretty much everywhere. But hey, it was the Navy.

Where were the rum machines?

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Where were the rum machines?


Funny thing about that. They had the basic idea that beer was ok, but not rum or whiskey. You could walk around the barracks with a beer and nothing would be said, but if you were caught with "stronger stuff" you got Captain's Mast. Go figure.

Of course the base club was open most of the time so booze was readily available there.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
Of course the base club was open most of the time so booze was readily available there


Never was in the Navy, but my Grand father was and then he was Manager of the NCO club. Learned a lot from that man.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dr. Guy,

Guess I got you by about 10 years.


I was a teenager in the mid to late 70's, but yes, you win, if you want to call it a win

we were too scared to do ANYTHING without permission


So were we, although reading about your son and the incident with the fireworks reminded me of some of the things we did and got away with as kids. Boys will boys...

in England you have to pay for all of your calls


It is still like that here, although local calls are quite cheap. I would rather be paying nothing, though.