[lit-ideas] two cans and a string
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:15:15 EDT
Yesterday my daughter went with me to the office while I sent out billing.
The hyper-terminal connection Medicare uses was frustratingly slow and I
muttered, "I might as well be using two cans and a string". Bronnie looked at
me
like I had two heads and said, "What???". I found myself explaining the way we
played telephone with cans and a string. It dawned on me that it was an
antiquated and obsolete game (made obsolete, maybe, with the advent of cordless
phones?). I started to reminisce aloud about all the games my brothers and I
played as kids that did not require video cards, joy sticks, or monitors.
Suddenly the generation gap of this generation seems a huge crevasse. Do your
kids
play non-tech games? Cards, marbles, dramatic play? Is all of that simply a
thing of the past?
Julie Krueger
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