I was the youngest. My sister was a wild child. My brother was a little less wild. Both hated school.
Fortunately, we all started at the same school at the same time when we moved. It was a small, rural school, K-12, so word about ANYTHING got around very quickly. I imagine the teachers had a...
It took me a long time to get to that point. Getting out of the house and off to college helped a LOT. All the other freshmen were dropped into the same circumstances of being in a new location, among strangers, doing new things, on their own for the first time. They didn't know how uncool I...
I never worried much about "coolness" when I was a kid. I didn't mind looking uncool, being uncool. I was one of the social outcasts, so there wasn't much I could do to raise my cool factor, no matter what I did.
Never saw those when I was a kid. I would have used them, gladly. I was going to use a heavy duty rubber band, but could never find one when I wanted it.
Re: getting up from the floor.
If this is not a problem for you now, keep doing the things that let you be able to do this. This is definitely a case of use it or lose it.
I broke my wrist 11 years ago at age 52. It took a year to get all the function back. I will never take mobility for...
The Overhead Projector!
At the photolab where I worked, we had a customer who wanted 100 copies of a presentation (20?30? slides long) made on 8x10 Ektachrome film, then mounted in the holders. We are talking some SERIOUS bucks in film, processing, and labor.
The show was computer generated...
And as someone else mentioned, ditto machine! That's what we called it in our school.
And the ink ran if it got wet. Spill a glass of water, and the page became illegible.