Don’t get me wrong. I know it’s hard to always be up to date with the latest and greatest. And at some point you have to throw in the towel on some things and be content with where you are. With other things, you need to accept reality and catch up.

  • Checks. Did you know they make these little plastic cards that you can use in place of writing checks? Instead of cash even! And it’s so much quicker to use one than to write a check. It’s also takes up much less spaces in your handbag or wallet. Occasionally there is a use for a check, like when you need to pay a bill. But if you have the option of online bill payment, then the check shouldn’t be used. It’s quicker, easier and greener to pay online. And if the company doesn’t have online bill payment, there is a good chance that they too need to catch up to 2010. (That’s a message to my insurance and mortgage companies, by the way.) Here’s my real issues with checks. When I am in a grocery store behind you and you pay for your bill with a check, a check that takes you forever to fill out, I am silently cursing you. Yep, for those agonizing moments, I hate you.
  • Answering machines. Like the ones with a cassette tape. I don’t know when I got my first phone with voicemail, but it was around 2000. And my parents had one long before that. (I think my phone in college cost $3 and I didn’t care about features.) Voicemail enables you to call in to get messages and / or just hear them at home. Such flexibility! Voicemail also enables you to hear your messages with much more clarity of sound and you can save them longer without running out of tape. Primarily though, when I call you and hear the gentle whirring of the answering machine tape before the beep indicates I should leave a message, I think you are a dinosaur.
  • Saying OMG for real and not sarcastically or ironically. I feel bad about this one because it’s almost wholly directed at people who are really too old to be saying OMG anyway and I don’t want to make them feel too bad. But it’s just not cool. “The Weather! O.M.G.” Stop it. Seriously. It’s a pet peeve.

I have more, I am certain, because in my head I am a little sarcastic and mean. Thankfully I keep most of my thoughts to myself. Most of them…

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