Alexina Paiement
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m a 1987 baby and yet, I nodded so much to all of this even though I’m considered a millennial (I think?).

I think we only started using dial-up around 1998 or so in my house, and then only for school work because my mother hated being unreachable by phone. Speaking of my mother, now she absolutely hates being tethered and insists on letting the phone ring for a full minute so she can walk at a sorta fast pace over to her precious cordless phone with an earpiece… the only phone she deigns to use now. And whenever I see her do it, I’m just absolutely perplexed, because to me it’s rude to make people wait, and she’s spoiled herself into forgetting that it’s okay to talk on a corded phone.

My first cellphone was actually my sister’s reject when she moved abroad, and even then I paid by the minute so I only used it to check in with my parents on the nights they would pick me up after my night classes in university. It was a flip phone and I loved it, and I wasn’t interested in the latest or newest. I only got my first smartphone in Korea because well I didn’t speak the language well at all and I needed data to know where things were or what things were. Even after coming back home I didn’t have a phone until last year because I started driving and having GPS is nice.

But my point is, sometimes I feel like a bystander of a world where people have forgotten simplicity and how to take things as they come. My mom preferring her precious cordless earpieced phone? I would take the closest corded or uncorded phone, doesn’t matter to me and I try to answer asap because that’s the polite thing to do. Being on the phone at the restaurant instead of talking to your date? What the fuck.

I’m from the wrong era ;)

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Alexina Paiement

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