Why don't they just...

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When the roomie's little great nephew was over back when he was about 3 or 4, he was watching a western with the roommate. The bad guys had the good guys trapped in the barn. L asked the roomie: "Why don't they just call for help on their phones?" ......... Thus there came the conversation about how they didn't have any phones back then and certainly not cell phones. This reminded us of the time his dad came out of one of the sheds with a 45 in his hand and asked: "What's with this black cd?" Mind you, he was more like 15 or so and the roomie and I burst out laughing, because, well, because when he was born, cds were the norm unlike when we were growing up and you only had vinyl. All right, there was older tech on slate and wax, but the SOTA was vinyl. But a kid of 3 or 4 you can't laugh at, even if you laugh about it later with another adult. I grew up watching old movies where they would have the hand crank phones and other old style phones, but at least they weren't something like a deck of cards you could talk to anyone in the world - nearly - and look up all kinds of information easily. I remember watching a show that was on in the late 1990's when they still had a "brick" style cell phone, and not everybody had one. These days I walk around with a high powered computer in my pocket that I mostly use to talk on the phone... I can hear the next generation asking some equally strange question like: "Why didn't they just whatever for help?"