Auld Lang Syne, anyone?

[firecat]

Recycling an old post from Facebook:

"RT @ ThatEricAlper: Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?"

Here’s my entry. I’ve heard that reading the time on an analog clock is no longer a universal skill. So I think some young people would find it hard to understand where the phrase “watch my six” comes from.

(This entry brought to you by Faith Hunter’s Shining Smith series, a post-apocalyptic story in which a woman infected by mesmerizing nanobots runs a junkyard with the help of a clowder of sentient, telepathic cats. She says it a lot in combat situations…not to the cats though.)

Comments

[snippy]

My mother used to have to wear a blue dust-proof jacket when she worked in the computer room. (This was after the time I made a treetop angel from spoiled punch cards.)

[firecat]

I want to see a picture of the angel!

[snippy]

There is likely a photo in a box somewhere, but I'm sure you can imagine it. Spray-painted gold.

[lilacsigil]

Oh! Punch cards! I remember that I made a little Christmas tree out of some, they folded so neatly and were crisp enough to hold their shape!