This post is really going to date me and make me look like an aging old fart of a woman. Oh well!
The other day Hubby and I were trying to have a conversation in the living room when two of my girls came running in playing Star Wars sword fighting (light sabers? My girls just discovered Star Wars btw.) and one of them fell and said, “Pause, I fell down.” First of all I think only girls would actually “pause” as little boys seem to think when the opponent falls it means they can finish them off!
What really caught our attention though was the “pause“. Who says pause? Apparently my children do. Not to long after that I was watching them on the trampoline (safety net and no jumping when more than one child is on, no flaming please!) and one of them said, “Rewind“. Now this was an alarming trend.
Whatever happened to Uncle, Time Out, or Stop. They must have gone away with the Atari I had in the 1980′s. I can clearly remember my first experience with a Beta machine. One of my friends had one and we watched ET at her house during an overnight-er. I was amazed that you could watch a movie at home with no commercials. They had a machine that you could watch anytime you wanted to. As a country girl raised with two channels (three on a clear day) this was amazing. I cannot remember what age I was when we got a remote control but I believe it had to be around 1989 when we got our first VCR.
Fast forward (see, I’m picking up on it!) twenty-five years later, my children really don’t get the whole “life without ultimate control” thing at all. If we are listening to the radio they want me to fast-forward or re-play a song that just finished. They just don’t get Live.
My future grandchildren will have everything voice activated no doubt and the remote controls will all be in museums! They will probably have the power to Pause by just thinking it. I wonder what words they will use?
So now along with the LOL, ROFL, b4n, and aytmtb I must warn you that your children may start sounding a bit remote control like mine do. Oh well, we can always say, Rad and Face to confuse them a bit!
( Translations: Laughing out loud, rolling on the floor laughing, bye for now, and you are telling me this because.)
