Obsolete skills (friends, married, single, girlfriend)
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It's truly obsolete rather than just unusual. Both my (millennial) children can drive a stick, write a thank-you note, change a tire, utilize good manners etc.
ETA - writing a check.
There are people today who earn money by translating short-hand, that people have found in the form of diaries and notes in their parents' / grandparents' attics.
Addressing envelopes and using stamps. Writing out checks. Reading maps.
Many kids today can barely read cursive writing. One wonders how they could sign their name without cursive. Pretty soon it will be as difficult as modern-day Germans trying to decipher the old gothic-style (pre-W.W.2) printing font.
Addressing envelopes and using stamps. Writing out checks. Reading maps.
Many kids today can barely read cursive writing. One wonders how they could sign their name without cursive. Pretty soon it will be as difficult as modern-day Germans trying to decipher the old gothic-style (pre-W.W.2) printing font.
My son writes the first letter of his first name backwards in cursive. I say nothing. He's an adult. Some things require a signature so no matter how many skills become obsolete, a signature will always be a thing.
There are people today who earn money by translating short-hand, that people have found in the form of diaries and notes in their parents' / grandparents' attics.
Some things require a signature so no matter how many skills become obsolete, a signature will always be a thing.
I don’t know how prevalent this is today but in the 70s when I was a teen I worked in a grocery store. One of the services was check cashing for people who had an approved “check cashing card”. Among our customers were woman that worked as domestic workers and couldn’t read or write. They would come in with sometimes multiple personal checks from their clients and would endorse them with an “X”. I would then have to draw a line to the X and write “her mark” and sign my name.
When I retired in 2015 a man in my department who would have been early 30s wasn’t taught cursive as a child and couldn’t write it. I remember being quite shocked when I first learned it because he is the first and only person I ever knew in that circumstance. I don’t remember how he explained check writing and cashing.
Just a couple of weeks ago I took my car for minor servicing. After I explained the problem to the service manager he assigned to a technician. The technician, maybe in his mid 20s, went to pull it into the service bay. When he figured out it was a manual transmission he had to get the service manager, maybe around 60 yo, to pull the car in! It was a tire shop. Nothing like that ever happened before anywhere. The oil change people never have a problem. I almost consider the manual transmission to be an extra theft deterrent. Love driving them and wish they were available in more cars.
Years ago my wife lived in a sketchy neighborhood. Everyone in her 8 unit apartment building had their car stolen at least once. Not her, she had a stick. Can't make that stuff up.
I can sew on a button. Grandson requested me to show his father how to do it as he assumed there was no way his mother would. It is true, despite my efforts to teach her when she was a child.
I can parallel park. But that is a necessity here, not an optional skill. Today I parallel parked once and perpendicular parked twice. I actually loathed rear to kerb perpendicular parking.
I can use apostrophes correctly. That is a curse as I get enraged when they are used with plurals and no one can understand why I am upset.
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