The Friday Five - The Good Ol' Days!

[elrhiarhodan]

This week's questions on thefridayfive are all about the good ol' days and the things we don't do so much anymore.

1. When was the last time you wrote a check at a store? I can't remember. I basically write about 15 checks a year. Most of them to my gardner. I keep hoping he'll start taking PayPal.

2. When was the last time you looked up something in a book? A few weeks ago, I was writing a historical A/U and checked out something in The Timetables of History. Books are still my friends, although I don't have so many of them anymore. Like real life friends, come to think of it.

3. When was the last time you used a dial phone? I can't remember. My household went to touchtone in the early 1980s, and I may have taken a rotary phone with me when I had my first apartment, but that's a long, long time ago.

4. When was the last time you played cards with actual paper cards? A few months ago, with a friend - we played gin. I actually enjoy playing real cards with real people. I love the who act of shuffling and dealing. Back in the Dark Ages, when I was in college, I carried a deck of cards with me and played gin with friends between classes.

5. When was the last time you talked to a stranger? This morning. The repairman who came to fix the stalled burner on my range.


If you want to play along, here's the code for this week's entry for thefridayfive. Post on your own journal and link back to this entry.

<B>1. When was the last time you wrote a check at a store?</b> <B>2. When was the last time you looked up something in a book? </b> <B>3. When was the last time you used a dial phone? </b> <B>4. When was the last time you played cards with actual paper cards? </b> <B>5. When was the last time you talked to a stranger? </b>

Comments

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You still have checks in the US? I think they are extinct in Germany. Last one I used was back in the Nineties. We either get a bill and send the money from the bank account, or pay with debit card.

[elrhiarhodan]

Too funny!

A lot of trade show vendors s prefer checks to credit/debit cards because of the transaction fees, but the number is decreasing. E-payment systems are taking over, driving transaction costs down.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Okay, I never go to trade shows so wouldn't know about that. I was talking about bills for handywork (which I don't even pay but my landlord, as I am just renting).

Or furniture delivery. Although sometimes they want to be paid in cash as well.

[riverotter1951.livejournal.com]

When the kids [daughter, son-in-law and grandson] visit, she and I play cribbage with a Pirates of the Caribbean deck of cards.

[elrhiarhodan]

I've played cribbage, my sister taught me when I was in the hospital a few years ago. Haven't kept it up, though. Gin is really my game.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

There's still a lot you can't actually look up on the internet... especially if you can't quite recall the details but know it's in one of the books somewhere in this house...

[ladyrose42.livejournal.com]

A dial phone, that's a tough one Surprised to see a pay phone in rest area on turnpike.