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I have to write a letter.
I practiced that in school, but I've never actually had to send one in real life.
As some might've guessed, I have some trouble with the government and apparently they don't have email or any other form of digital contact 
Perhaps they just try to make it as difficult as possible to file a complaint?
Lots of stress for me though.
First, there's the writing, which I'd have to do in an email anyway (probably just slightly less formal).
Then there's the printing.
I have to provide some "evidence" so it's more printing and some copying (instead of just scanning).
Luckily, I just bought ink and paper for my printer/scanner because I needed to print some piano sheet music.
Then I actually have to leave the house and go to the post office which is open on Saturday morning (today it closed before I was even out of bed) or in the afternoon on weekdays.
Buy a stamp and envelope, write some address on it and then wait.
Probably until I get a piece of paper back telling me they've received my complaint and are processing it.
Then wait some more until I get another piece of paper telling me my complaint was justified or not.
If I want history I'll go to a museum 
They worry about the elderly not being able to fill out online forms, but what about the younger generation who don't know how to write a letter?
On a more serious note, I'm only 31 and I've never sent a letter before (I wonder if they still practice writing them in school?).
I have some younger cousins who have never seen a floppy before.
Technology sure has come far, fast!
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History can have it's charms, today I visited the historic city of Hattem where a chocolate festival took place, jummy
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Make sure you send it registered mail
they're notorious for loosing mail (sending it to the wrong person/dept) but will never admit, rather they claim it hasn't been received ... with the suggestion you didn't send it [yet] or "what address did you send it to?" (implying you're an idiot) ...
for the extra few $ it's worth it, and reg mail tracking is on-line.
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You've never sent a letter before??? (Even our Prime Minister has sent a 3 letters...)
How did you thank your Grandparents for Christmas presents?
How did you write to distant relatives about someone's death? (With a black-bordered envelope so they know to sit down before reading it)
How did you send romantic letters to your prospective partner? (Ideally with a pressed flower, or at least some little token for them to keep close to their heart)
Seriously, there are times when a letter is more appropriate than email / text etc.
I'm helping sort out my late mother-in-law's home, and we've come across hundreds of old letters, that fill in a lot of gaps about family history, hidden secrets, life in years gone by, some of it going back a century. No phone SIM is going to keep all that stuff, the "cloud" will run out of backup space some time, your CDs / DVDs will no longer be accessible - paper (so long as kept dry!) will stay around...
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DerekT-P wrote: How did you thank your Grandparents for Christmas presents?
In person.
DerekT-P wrote: How did you write to distant relatives about someone's death? (With a black-bordered envelope so they know to sit down before reading it)
I never had to.
You do that for like a couple of people in your entire life...
DerekT-P wrote: How did you send romantic letters to your prospective partner? (Ideally with a pressed flower, or at least some little token for them to keep close to their heart)
I bought them gifts or sent them texts and emails.
DerekT-P wrote: Seriously, there are times when a letter is more appropriate than email / text etc.
When you dislike someone and want to send them paper waste 
Seriously, why the hell would I ever send anyone a letter? 
Email, text and phone do perfectly fine.
Emails don't take up any physical space and they have this awesome search functionality.
I don't even like receiving letters.
They're mostly taxes or fines or some other stupid thing my government wants.
Or lottery spam.
The time of Christmas cards is soon upon us (for some reason I got four cards more than usual last year, which brings the total to five)
I read two magazines that I enjoy receiving.
Which reminds me, some green energy foundation I support keeps sending me letters (that go straight to the recycling bin).
I have to call them to tell them to stop and send it by email already.
So much paper wasted for a green initiative 
Death to letters! 
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I completely understand your plight, though I received a full education in the dark arts, being an old fart. I was giggling today with some other old farts about the kids growing up now. Here in the US, many schools have ceased teaching cursive writing. At the same time, I've noticed that the Captcha garbage many sites employ now spell out the clues in cursive letters, asking the user to type in the correct characters. The poor little ones won't have any idea what to type. I may not be able, in my old age, to play with the games they play, but they'll still need me to get them into online ordering systems!
Will Rogers never met me.
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No cursive!? 
Well, to be honest, the last time I needed cursive... 
I had a computer at a very early age (when I was 7 years old, 7 years old was early) and I never really did write a lot.
A University professor once noted "your cursive writing is at the level of a 3rd grader, but that also makes it very readable."
And that's really only where I used it, in school.
At least I don't need you for my online shopping needs (I'd need an extra order of eye bleach  )
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'd need an extra order of eye bleach
I'm old, but not that ugly! 
Cursive writing isn't all that useful, actually. In the Peoples' Republic of California, when I was a kid, we were taught block printing until the 3rd grade, then we had to master cursive. When I was in 2nd grade, my school didn't have enough students for a 2nd grade class, so they stuck me in a 2nd/3rd mixed class, where the teacher made us all learn cursive. Half way through the year, they found more 2nd grade kids, and split the class. Our new teacher punished me for writing cursive, and forced me to go back to block printing. I haven't been able to write in cursive style with much skill ever since. Frankly, I don't miss it a bit...
Will Rogers never met me.
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nine out of ten times cursive is unreadable.
I heard it's a prerequisite for med school though
It just writes so much faster than block.
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Attach a false correction (5)
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Attach
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yep 
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This is not what I expected.
Getting old ain't for sissies!
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Indeed. Hope all is well?
/ravi
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Doing well thanks, just feeling my age today.
Gloomy, cool and overcast day the kind that if I lived in the north I'd say it was going to snow.
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I just figure that it's waaaaaaay better than the alternative!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yep but some days the aches just make one feel old.
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Yep but some days the aches just make one feel old.
Show em who's boss Mike
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Getting old is pretty ok. Feeling old is uhm ...
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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When I was a kid I didn’t like going to bed or being spanked...
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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I would never say that in the Lounge!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Cool things about being an adult:
- Eat snacks whenever you want
- No bedtime
- Tired all the time
- Stress all the time
- Wait a sec...
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Looking at what the world has come to, I am happy that I am as old as I am.
I recognize that youth of today have the same right as I had when I was that age, to go for their own generation's music, movies, litterature (or rather: lack of it), social conventions, food habits, ... you name it.
But it isn't my way. Quite far from it. It is far from my ideals and tastes. I could of course turn into a grumpy old man, spending the rest of my life complaining about how bad youth are today, how they ruin the world. It would be of no use - grumpy old men never stopped a society from developing.
I know well that today's young generation doesn't create a very much "worse" world than our generation did, it is just different. So different that I don't feel at home in it. If I had an opportunity to sit watching it for another 100 years, moving further and further away from my wishes every year, I would have gone crazy from frustration. I would rather lie down when I still feel that I can "tolerate" the modern world, even though I am far from enjoying it. I guess I can take another 20 or 30 years, but not much more. I wouldn't mind if it happened much faster.
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I'm sure the older generation has been condemning the younger generation for millennia but we as a species have survived.
They,(the youngers) have to adapt to survive in a world that's rapidly changing and they are doing it the only way they know how.
I'm with you. it's an uncomfortable and strange world that we olders are living in but there are only 2 options available; lie down or go on! At 70 I'll go on as long as I'm able!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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