Going, going. . .

Things I finally began to notice that are gone or on their way out (a sure sign of a mid life crisis in full bloom):

• Phone booths
• Drive-up bank tellers with people behind the window
• Tiny packages of Life Savers (that the drive-up tellers used to give out)
• Boom boxes
• Photo booths that develop camera film
• Full service gas stations
• Postage stamps
• Hand-written letters (I know, that’s why I’m here)
• The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (paper version)
• Aprons that only cover from the waist down
• Instamatic cameras
• Flash bulbs
• Knee socks
• Rice pudding (wishful thinking)
• TV dinners with compartments for each kind of food
• Miracle Whip (more wishful thinking)
• Cassette players
• Swizzle sticks that look like swords
• Sanka
• Seven-digit phone numbers
• Jiffy Pop
• White shoes (they’ll be back)
• Ash trays
• Rotary phones
• Clip-on earrings