OldSchool

Wow this title thing is really getting old.....

Isn't technology a wonderful thing, who remembers the days of the type writer? I remember we had an ancient one when I was a kid, and we thought it was the greatest thing ever, we used to pretend we were like Poppa, working at the newspaper. It was great till we used the same machine when we were a little older and wanted to impress the teacher.

I remember dad had to lift the thing out of the closet for us when it was time for homework, cause it was so big and cumbersome that my brother and I couldn't lift it together.

This girl was electric, had a nice humming noise similar to a jack hammer trying to crack through pavement. And I don't know if it wasn't invented at this time or not but we didn't have correction fluid, white out, or whatever you want to call it. But we were two of the smartest kids in the class. Presentations, book reports, projects...straight A's.

Why...Imagine starting with your assignment, typing away with the ever popular hen pecking technique that I still apply today. Three paragraphs in and bam, uh oh you hit two keys at once...restart, by the third time u feel like hurling the annoying beast through the window, only problem is, cant lift it. So you continue, then you hit the space bar prematurely, or roll down and then want to go back, oh this is where it gets fun, typing over your previous sentence, good times, and now your steaming mad, and ready for the next dose of Ritalin.

By the time the assignment was done, you had the words permanently etched and ingrained into your memory, blew the teache right out of her chair, worth the A? A lot of wasted hours that I will never get back.

THat old girl still sits in the closet, Pops just can't seem to part with it!