can you read an analog clock face?

[alocispepraluger102]

my friend's 20 year old daughter, a soph. at a private college, cannot. i suspect it's just a cultural thing. there are probably lots of others......

Edited March 28, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[Quincy]

my friend's 20 year old daughter, a soph. at a private college, cannot. i suspect it's just a cultural thing. there are probably lots of others......

Ask her to write in cursive why she can't.

[Shawn]

I can, also know how to tie my shoes.

[jazztrain]

Have you noticed how few cashiers can actually make change these days? Especially if the cash register malfunctions?

I can, also know how to tie my shoes.

[sonnymax]

[alocispepraluger102]

now, that is downright disheartening.

[Tim McG]

I teach teenagers and, sadly, more and more struggle with reading an analogue clock.

[PHILLYQ]

I made sure to teach my now 19 year old son how to tell time.

And yes, cashiers are unable to make change unless the register tells them how much the change is! I was in the supermarket a few weeks ago and an older cashier was showing a young one how to make change. Talk about befuddled looks!!!

[Jazzmoose]

So how many of you old farts can read a sundial as quickly as you can your watch?

Although, I must confess I have the opposite problem. 10:50 looks like halfway to eleven...

[BeBop]

So how many of you old farts can read a sundial as quickly as you can your watch?

Although, I must confess I have the opposite problem. 10:50 looks like halfway to eleven...

Give me a minute to find my glasses.

[JSngry]

Clocks, making change, no problem, but my otherwise quite-intelligent daughter had to confront the rotary phone challenge a year or so ago and failed miserably.

[tjluke68]

I like it when my grocery bill or whatever for example, is $5.57 and I hand the clerk $11 and they look at me like I'm from Mars and try to give me the dollar bill back. When they finally enter the total in the register, they realize why I did that...

[Tim McG]

So how many of you old farts can read a sundial as quickly as you can your watch?

Although, I must confess I have the opposite problem. 10:50 looks like halfway to eleven...

Give me a minute to find my glasses.

You and me both, Brudda

[BeBop]

I like it when my grocery bill or whatever for example, is $5.57 and I hand the clerk $11 and they look at me like I'm from Mars and try to give me the dollar bill back. When they finally enter the total in the register, they realize why I did that...

You're lucky. This is when they usually start counting our the five dollar bills they're going to give me.

[AllenLowe]

when the big hand hits Mickey's weener, it's time to call Minnie.

[BruceH]

I grew up in the 60's, so yes, I can read an analog clock face. (We used to call them "dial clocks" or "clocks-with-hands.")

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

It's getting very hard to find a digital watch over here. I like very cheap ones. My last one bust a few weeks ago - the strap bust, anyway and, as it was a rubber strap connected to the body of the watch, you can't get it replaced, so the watch has to be junked. And I couldn't get a digital watch at all, whereever I went. So I got one with a dial. Well, sure I can tell the fuc king time, but now I never know what the date is; I have to go and find a calendar.

MG

[JSngry]

Cufflinks, baby, cufflinks!

[A Lark Ascending]

I find it astounding that young people today don't have the patience to turn one of these over regularly.

Though, thinking about it, I have no patience when one appears on my computer screen.

Edited April 4, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Cufflinks, baby, cufflinks!

Go nicely with my Spillers T-shirts

MG

[JSngry]

Body piercings, then, perhaps...or not...

[Pete C]

my otherwise quite-intelligent daughter had to confront the rotary phone challenge a year or so ago and failed miserably.

Where did you find one?

I remember when you could buy tone generators to play through your phone if you had a rotary line but needed to deal with menus that expect touch tone.

Edited April 4, 2012 by Pete C

[JSngry]

My mother in-law still has one in her house. Not her only phone, though.

Weren't those tone generators also useful for getting free long-distance or something like that? Back in the day when it wasn't supposed to be free?

[Quincy]

My mother in-law still has one in her house. Not her only phone, though.

We still have one in use. However earlier in the week we got iPhones, so the ole rotary may finally just be used for decoration.

[Chuck Nessa]

Cufflinks, baby, cufflinks!

I thought this was a fancy roach clip.