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Originally Posted by Row Jimmy
Saying "thanks" to someone who holds the door for you - I work with teens every day and they're all quite comfortable navigating in their own social circles but when it comes to acknowledging adults, they want nothing to do with it. My mom would have cracked my skull if I was a clueless teen. And then she'd harp on it for two weeks to drive the point home.
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I always say thanks when someone holds the door for me. It's common sense and manors.
I have more for the list:
Using typewriters.
Using the book "10,000 Words" to look up how to spell a given word (Mom taught me this one).
Using various cover-up techniques when your using a typewriter and mistype something (now-a-days it's called using the "Delete" button).
Using a dot matrix printer. Oh, the mornings I awoke to hearing my brother print off reports to take to school....both nostalgic and irritating at the same time. Another memory these give me is how much trouble I'd get in for ripping off the edge part of the paper that was threaded into the spools to help move it along (although the urge to turn it into a whopping heap of confetti was just too irresistible to me for some reason).
Going to the library to research a subject. Now you just use the internet 9 times out of 10.