“Dad, you’re such a luddite,” Stephanie said. “You’re still using a flip phone for your cellphone, your only computer is a TRS-80 from Radio Shack, you still have a fax machine and a VCR. Your television is a tube TV, and your record collection is made up of old 45s.”
“Hey, I am not a luddite,” Henry said. “I embrace technology. My typewriter is an electric one. Now excuse me while I go to my man cave and play Pac-Man on my Atari.”
“You’re not a luddide, Dad. You’re a troglodyte,” Stephanie said.
(95 words)
Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt from Sammi Cox, where the word is “troglodyte.”
Lol! 😀 hahaha! funny!
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Thanks.
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🙂 Fandango, we need to fall back on the low-tech devices when our modern-day high-tech devices are experiencing technical difficulties.
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Very true, Renard.
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I’m a fan of keeping old phone lines for, both, ordinary phone service and FAX service. Very much a fan. I also wonder if it’s a good idea to keep an old television around that functions with an antenna (and I do have one — a small one that also will run a VHS tape).
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I have no land line, no fax machine, no tube TV, and no VCR. But I do have a bunch of VHS tapes in a box in the garage.
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The tube tv I have can be carried in one hand or one arm. I don’t think it’s out of the question that our highfalutin media services will (or could) fail us at some point. I also have a radio-flashlight combo that can be charged by a hand crank.
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Haha!
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Ha.. I had that computer!! And an even dozen since then.
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The youth of today will be in a world of hurt if someday they have to live in a world with no electricity! That old manual typewriter they mock today will still work, even by candlelight! 😉
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All some adversarial country has to do is to hack, attack, or disable our electrical and communications systems and we’ll be in a world of hurt.
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Yep. Have you read “One Second After” by William Forstchen? A chilling book about EMPs that can disable a nation’s electrical grid. After reading, I did some research, and Russia has had the ability to knock out our power for years … just hasn’t chosen to use it yet. You should read that book … makes you realize just how reliant we are on electrical power.
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I haven’t but I will look into it. Thanks fir the recommendation.
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Good one Fandango! Excellent use of 95 words. 🙂
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Thank you so much. It’s always a fun challenge when there is an interesting word prompt and a limited number of words to exploit it.
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My landline phone rang the other day and I missed the call because I couldn’t remember which button to press! Now, where’s my cassette player?
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😂
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