Or test a TV vacuum tube for that matter.
Look up a phone number in the yellow pages.
Do research in a law library
Use carbon paper
wear a condom
Put film into or take it out of a camera.
Put a card into or take it out of a library catalogue.
Use a typewriter.
I will probably never pay for cable again.
I will probably never pay 20+% interest on a loan again.
I will probably never file bankruptcy again.
I will probably never live with my mom again.
I will probably never balance a checkbook again. (I write one check a month, for rent, and I don’t need a register to keep track of that)
I will probably never use an overhead projector again.
I will probably never buy a cassette tape or tape player again.
I will probably never buy a dvd again.
A few years ago I was watching an old low budget sci-fi movie. It wasn’t on MST3K but it was that calibre of movie. A flying saucer had been discovered and a Military Stock Character is wondering if it’s from outer space or earthmade, and the Scientist Stock Character tells him it’s definitely alien: he’s examined their computers and the gases in the vacuum tubes are of a type not found on Earth.
Untangle a casette or reel-to-reel tape.
Wear kitty spikes (sprinting grips, not heels.)
Roll down a car window.
Sharpen a pencil
Change the wood shavings in a rodent cage.
Muck a stall
Trade a garbage patch kid card.
Watch MAS*H
Condition a new pair of pointe shoes.
Live in NYC.
Pay 25 cents/gallon for gas.
Stack several records on a turntable spindle.
Get a dental implant, root canal or extraction.
Own a pet other than a cat.
Have sex with 10+ guys in a single night (or even 2).
Eat haggis or limburger cheese.
Have my wallet stolen on vacation.
Drive in a non-English-speaking country.
Wear size 29 jeans.
Pee in two oceans in the same day.
Splice a cassette tape.
Have my appendix removed.
Have a “best friend” who isn’t my partner.
Get married
Have sex
Ride a bicycle
Test vacuum tubes at my local convenience store
Build a radio receiver out of surplus electronic parts
Decipher a capacitor’s value using the old color code
As above for resistors
Live another fifty years
Drive an automobile with a standard transmission that has the shifter handle on the steering column.
Drive an automobile that has a foot operated starter switch
Drive an automobile that has a foot operated headlight dimmer switch
As Sampiro said, watch a black and white TV
Drink from a “Whites Only” public water fountain
Wait for a bus/train/plane in a “Whites Only” waiting room
Listen to adults claim that rock and roll was part of a communist plot (I’m not making this up)
I’m sure there are a few more
Use a pay phone.
Adjust the choke to start a car.
Pump the gas.
- Type an essay/paper for school…
- …on a typewriter
Lick a stamp.
I was going to ask about this
But then I read this and the lightbulb went on. It’s astonishing that something so recent historically is so far beyond comprehension that it didn’t even occur to me as a possibility.
Buy vacuum cleaner bags
Burn a CD
Use carbon paper
splice magnetic tape
replace a vacuum tube
carry a pager
record songs off the radio
go deer hunting in the Adirondacks
write a program in BASIC
drink moonshine
climb a transmitter tower
It took me a while too - I guess I just always assumed there would be four.
Change typewriter ribbon
Get married
Use a condom
Burn a music CD
Change a phonograph needle
Play with sparklers
Use a modem
Burn incense
Remain in my car while the gas is filled and the oil is checked by an attendant
Slammed on my coaster brakes