Kids Today...

TheBoy checked out one of the Harry Potter books from the local library the other day. On tape.

As in cassette tape.

First of all, we had to search far and wide for a portable cassette player in the house. The only tape deck we have is in the family room, a large home stereo-ish deal with CD player/radio/tape deck. TheBoy wanted to listen to the tapes while he followed along - it's a novel experience.

I managed to find a portable tape recorder that I had bought when in graduate school some {mumble} years ago. Oddly enough, the batteries were still good, even though it hadn't be used since the early 2000s (I recorded TheBoy's first coos and giggles, hey, I'm a proud papa).

So he finished the first side of the first tape, and asked Mrs. G. what to do next. She tells him that the tape needs to be rewound*, and shows him which button to push.

He didn't last more than five seconds before he asked, quite impatiently, "Isn't it DONE yet?"

That is all.

*In a further comment on the auditory choice of milieu, Mrs. G. completely forgot that cassette tapes played on both sides...