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I’m one of those people who resist change. If it’s not broken, why fix it? Well, I am Recently stumbled upon The Reddit thread that opened my eyes to the fact that it’s always been this way. Here are 17 stories of grandparents who were resisting the “next big thing” of their day, which was things like microwaves and debit cards.
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“My father (born 1922) told me that his grandfather refused to believe the radios; he thought someone was pulling his leg.”
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“My grandmother was born in 1925. She once told me that her fourth-grade teacher told the class that in the future, she would be able to talk to someone over long distances while seeing them at the same time! My grandmother clearly remembers thinking that was the stupidest thing she had ever heard. “
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“My lovely grandmother only used her microwave for one thing: heating up water. It was wonderful. She also used email only once. Her message to me… “Your father made me do this. “I will never be the same again.” Love, Grandma.
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“Haha. When my mother died in June 2018, I realized that my father had no idea how to use his debit cards because my mother handled everything like that. We had to go to an ATM to actually practice withdrawing cash and then go to A store to practice using the card to pay for things. He was completely amazed, and after using contactless payment to pay for some newspapers, he exclaimed, “Oh my God, it’s so easy!!” The store owner could barely hide her laughter.
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“Family legend has it that my farmer grandfather (who is still with us, and is in his 90s now) tried to stop his first tractor by shouting ‘Whoa!’ He did it as he would a horse, and apparently the tractor completely ignored him, and grandfather and the machine ended up in the canal.” .
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“When my great-grandmother first installed electricity in her house, she was given an electric clothes iron. After ironing, she insisted on leaving it plugged in and placing it on a high shelf ‘until the remaining electricity drained again.’ It seems that it took a long time to convince her that electricity “It doesn’t work like water.”
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“My grandmother, who was in her 90s and had email, thought the email had been ‘delivered’ to her inbox by people. My mother would tell her they had sent her something, and my grandmother would say, ‘Well, maybe they did It hasn’t been delivered yet, while it was most likely in spam.
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“I had to teach my grandparents how to use their first answering machine. They tried to record their ‘no one home’ message, and we got a recording of them arguing over which button to press to record. Very funny and cute.” I think this is the button? “I already paid him, Mary! Now, what do you do?!”
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“Record player. They have three speeds: 33 rpm for LPs, 45 rpm for singles, and 78 rpm for old records. My grandparents had set the speed to 33. I was messing around with it and left it at 45. They called my dad, saying I broke it.” , and I told them how to fix it by just moving the controller that appears a little on the front and the next time I visited, they accused me of breaking it again, I had to change the setting and was told Never touch him again.
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“Convincing a grandparent that he won’t be able to trade in his manual transmission car for a newer car that has the shift lever on the steering column like he used to.”
— Sh/(deleted)
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“My high school got computers my senior year. The administrator looked for a teacher who had a free period so he could teach a computer class. One of my favorite memories of school was the football coach standing at the front of the room and offering extra credit to anyone who could figure out how to operate a computer.”
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“Child-proof caps were put on medications in the early 1970s. None of the adults could figure it out, so they handed them out.” they Medicine bottles for children to open. “Everyone thought it was very funny.”
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“One of us left a GameBoy at my grandmother’s house, and she started playing on it. She loved it. We all pitched in and got one for her, and in the end, she would hide it when the kids came over so no one would mess up her tray. Miss you, Nanny.”
– Sh/Ask_me_4_a_story
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“I asked my grandfather (born in the 1930s) about ‘devil technology’ when he was growing up. He said that his parents refused to have a television in the house because it would destroy them. He and his friends had to escape to the barber shop anytime they wanted to watch television. Automatic windows in cars are evil, according to his father: “If you’re too lazy to open the window, you’re too lazy to drive a car.”
— Sh/(deleted)
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“When my paternal grandmother (b. 1898) first moved into a house with an electric stove, my mother received a phone call asking why stoves were making tons and tons of smoke. Apparently Gram was ‘lighting’ the stoves the same way she did with wood-burning and gas stoves: With the matches and kindling, there were piles of half-burnt sticks, matches and bundles of paper, not to mention a thick layer of ash several shots in, but she got it Eventually, years later, when someone gave her an electric iron, we discovered that she cut the cord and put it on the stove to heat it, like a “real” iron.
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Finally: “Of all possible things: zucchini. It was not a common vegetable at the time, let alone grown. When I planted some seeds in my cucumber plot, my grandmother frightened By devil’s weed. It’s been a good year. The leaves were as large as an umbrella, which was understandably a bit startling. Once curiosity overcame skepticism about new things, zucchini became a village staple. Unfortunately. Me, no He loves zucchini; I just wanted to plant some random seeds for fun. Suddenly soup, bread, salad and even cakes were made with them. Hurk.”
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