One of the worst parts of getting older is that you find yourself saying things that your parents said when you were going up.
*sigh* "Kids these days..."
"When I was your age..."
"You don't know how good you have it..."
This morning I found myself saying "When I was your age" and it really freaked me out. I don't like thinking about the fact that I'm technically an adult person and I certainly don't like thinking about the fact that I'm now closer to thirty than I am to twenty.
This morning I handed Alden my phone for a second so that I could help him get ready to go to the bus stop. I told him "Here hold this, if it says 6:00 before I take it back from you let me know." (Yes, his bus comes obscenely early). Within a minute the phone went black so the time on the screen was no longer visible. He then pushed the "Menu" button to make it light back up. Since my phone is shitty and doesn't lock like it's supposed to pushing that button actually brought up the menu with several options on the screen. He immediately started tapping on them with his finger. Then he announced "Mama, it's broken!" Then it dawned on me...he has no idea that my phone isn't a touch screen because everyone else's phones are.
So of course I said "This is an older phone. You have to push buttons, you don't make it go with the touch screen. When I was your age no one I knew even HAD a cell phone. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 16 and it was way too big to shove in my pocket." I kind of rolled my eyes at myself after having heard what I said because it sounded so old and strange coming from my mouth. Then the reality of the situation began to hit me.
He will never have a phone with buttons, he will never carry around a Nokia with the size (and durability) of a brick. He has an iPad and an iPod and no idea that not all cell phones are touch screen activated. He only goes to one house regularly that even has a home phone line. He has no concept of payphones or pagers and he probably never will.
The fact that I remember getting a cordless home phone and a MASSIVE computer and them both being "kind of a big deal" at that point in time seems so strange now. It makes me wonder what kind of crazy contraptions they'll have out in 20 more years that will make him roll his eyes about how when he was a kid all that he had was an iPad 2 and a flat screen computer. I can't wait to start calling him asking questions the equivalent to those I've gotten from my elders such as "OMG HELP! I DELETED THE RECYCLE BIN! NOW I CAN'T DELETE ANYTHING!" or of course the "I DELETED THE INTERNET!" that I'm sure we've all heard at least once. I just hope he's still nice enough to drive me around town in his hovercraft when I'm too old to see properly.
*sigh* "Kids these days..."
"When I was your age..."
"You don't know how good you have it..."
This morning I found myself saying "When I was your age" and it really freaked me out. I don't like thinking about the fact that I'm technically an adult person and I certainly don't like thinking about the fact that I'm now closer to thirty than I am to twenty.
This morning I handed Alden my phone for a second so that I could help him get ready to go to the bus stop. I told him "Here hold this, if it says 6:00 before I take it back from you let me know." (Yes, his bus comes obscenely early). Within a minute the phone went black so the time on the screen was no longer visible. He then pushed the "Menu" button to make it light back up. Since my phone is shitty and doesn't lock like it's supposed to pushing that button actually brought up the menu with several options on the screen. He immediately started tapping on them with his finger. Then he announced "Mama, it's broken!" Then it dawned on me...he has no idea that my phone isn't a touch screen because everyone else's phones are.
So of course I said "This is an older phone. You have to push buttons, you don't make it go with the touch screen. When I was your age no one I knew even HAD a cell phone. I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 16 and it was way too big to shove in my pocket." I kind of rolled my eyes at myself after having heard what I said because it sounded so old and strange coming from my mouth. Then the reality of the situation began to hit me.
He will never have a phone with buttons, he will never carry around a Nokia with the size (and durability) of a brick. He has an iPad and an iPod and no idea that not all cell phones are touch screen activated. He only goes to one house regularly that even has a home phone line. He has no concept of payphones or pagers and he probably never will.
The fact that I remember getting a cordless home phone and a MASSIVE computer and them both being "kind of a big deal" at that point in time seems so strange now. It makes me wonder what kind of crazy contraptions they'll have out in 20 more years that will make him roll his eyes about how when he was a kid all that he had was an iPad 2 and a flat screen computer. I can't wait to start calling him asking questions the equivalent to those I've gotten from my elders such as "OMG HELP! I DELETED THE RECYCLE BIN! NOW I CAN'T DELETE ANYTHING!" or of course the "I DELETED THE INTERNET!" that I'm sure we've all heard at least once. I just hope he's still nice enough to drive me around town in his hovercraft when I'm too old to see properly.
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