I've been referring to myself as middle-aged since I turned 40 and BOY does that freak out Boomers. I think we're still middle-aged. I think we get to be middle-aged until we're old enough for Medicare.
That's fair, though Mandy Patinkin just posted a video in which his wife Kathryn, who is 73, said that she is not elderly - which she proved with some calisthenics move I cannot do at 51 - she is "late late middle aged" and will be elderly at 80, and it's a compelling argument! 😆
Oh, I'm not expecting to be *elderly* at Medicare age. I am hoping not to be elderly until I am at LEAST 80. I feel like you're elderly once people start saying things like, "she really still gets around well, considering."
OK, to be fair, it's also an "are you an elder millennial" quiz (I feel like younger millennials are going to have higher scores but it probably depends heavily on the family they grew up in.)
(I do think there are people my age who have never had to send a fax, but I'm pretty sure my dad STILL uses a fax machine for some dog medical records.)
I don't THINK I've used a typewriter, & my portable cassette player wasn't Walkman brand. Nor were there Blockbusters in back-of-beyond, WI...where the library still had dial-up & was also the only way I accessed the internet outside of school before I went to college...
I did give myself credit for renting videos from my friend's mom's video store, although I *think* we rented a video from a Blockbuster in Omaha at least once. My first portable CD player *was* Walkman brand (heh).
(I am merely old enough to always get *asked* if I qualify for the 55+ senior discounts at stores. but not to get one if they're going to check my driver's license.)
I’m honestly grateful I had an analog childhood/adolescence and a digital adulthood. I feel like I can both appreciate what tech has given me access to but also recognize its shortcomings.
Yeah, I only dealt with it at one retail chain job where that was how the corporate headquarters communicated with the stores. Even then it felt dated.
I was faxing data to customers over a satellite link from muddy fields until almost 2010, and then only because I got a new job, I expect those customers still insist on fax.
Personal Cheques were very much a US thing, I know of no-one here in Aus that used them (My Dad had a business chequing account I used for buying mail order stuff, when he let me :D)
Two. I never happen to have used a Walkman to listen to music myself, but my son did while he was still a kid and lived with me, so maybe I shouldn’t count it. And I used to record from the radio onto — reel-to-reel tape! Which I probably should get a minus-1 for. So I’m not sure my “two” holds up.
Does it have to had been an original Sony Walkman? Because I only ever had cheap knockoffs. Also, Blockbuster didn't operate here. But otherwise, zero.
I might be at 1 because I remember seeing a blockbuster when I lived in the USA but I don't think I ever went inside.. tbs I totally rented them from the German equivalent (which were usually independent smaller in kind and somewhat curated) which then again would put me too at 0
Never did only 20, because of past distrust in banks.
11 was done using a software fax for dial-up modem; 13 only in a local VHS rent shops (we had many).
So that totals in 1 point, I guess?
We never had a record player in our house growing but we did have 8 tracks, and I feel like that should count for something since vinyl is seeing such a resurgence.
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The vinyl records were mostly at dance class, welp.
Yay, I've done all these things, yippee.
What do I win????
Although they misspelled vinyl.
Can’t turn off editor brain.
I can feel my bones crumbling
It wasn't a Blockbuster.
(Cashed a cheque here in the US this week - mind-boggling!)
Literally no one in the store knew how we were meant to process it.
11 was done using a software fax for dial-up modem; 13 only in a local VHS rent shops (we had many).
So that totals in 1 point, I guess?