24. We like the Yellow Pages! Hope they don't disappear, what would I do for a doorstop?
23. Sheesh, I used to be a copyeditor, and one of my jobs was reading every classified ad every night before the press deadline, and making sure it was pasted into the old printing sheets correctly--this was back before newspapers were made on computers, you had to type everything into a word processor and a specially set-up printer would make it into column size. I for one will be glad never to see another weirdo classified ad, or hearing another irate would-be customer complaining about the "no soliciting for you-know-what" policy ever again.
22. Another one that makes me sad. DH tends to buy movies that look interesting, although he's good about re-selling the crummy ones to the secondhand shop.
21. Good riddance. Don't miss dial-up one bit. Wifi is your friend.
20. Isn't it dangerous not to have a landline? I thought the whole deal with the landline is that IF you have to call 911, they can't tell where you are by a cell phone. Whereas a land line, the 911 operator can see your address immediately.
19. I remember the best Maryland crab cakes ever, years ago...And I remember the giant brouhaha some years later, when all the PA farmers were told that they needed to change their fertilizer practices, because phosphates and excess nitrogen and so forth were ending up in the Chesapeake. We started getting the phosphate-free laundry detergent, and a bunch of people complained that it was Big Brother trying to keep us down, but honestly, the phosphate-free stuff works just as well and it's cheaper.
18. Tell me about it. Mine gave up the ghost, and now I have all these tapes...
17. Well, mine are OK, knock on wood. In fact, anyone who would like to fight the spread of the Ash Borer is welcome to collect any of the freakin' THOUSANDS of seedlings we get in the yard every year...
16. I have a ham radio license. It expires next year. I should renew it.
15. I have a swimming pool, and the insurance on it is INSANE. Not sure I'd feel tooooo bad about the swimming holes, because after seeing what so-called friends and neighbors will happily do to a swimming pool when they think you aren't looking, I don't think I would dip so much as a pinky toe into the urine-filled and poop-contaminated cesspits that are "open to the public" swimming pools. Yes, I realize no one gets polio anymore, but it's still gross.
14. Have one of these also.
13. Boy, I have two! Maybe I should stock up on film. Best thing on earth for wildlife photography, really--the digital ones aren't nearly as good as a $200 film camera.
12. Huh. What about heat lamps?
11. There's one right down the road from me. DH likes bowling.
10. We also have one of these, who delivers milk in glass bottles. Sadly they only do milk, chocolate milk and ice cream--all the other things they have are national brands.
9. I write hand-written thank you notes on special cards. I don't care if I am the only person on earth who does such a thing.
8. Ah, that's too bad.
7. They actually come in handy. Not everyone takes PayPal.
6. Used to have one down the road from DH's college, so it was a fun thing to do. The main problem was, the movies they played were invariably pretty awful things that no one wanted to see.
5. Unfortunately, the numbers have gone up considerably since 2005--more than doubled. Guess why.
4. Getting some of these next year, once my winter flowering plants are established.
3. Well, define "TV News." I mean, most of the news-y type shows have been replaced by ranting lunatics shouting something political and fluff pieces about the most fashionable type of dog. In that sense, I'd say they are long gone already.
2. Already gone.
1. We've got a few around here. Support your local farmer, buy CSA shares!
