At Sadje’s Keep It Alive website, for the prompt for Monday’s What Do You See #201
Sadje offers us the image below by Tobias Tullius on Unsplash of a car dashboard.
The car is traveling on an empty road, and someone sitting in the passenger seat is
inserting a cassette into the car’s cassette player. You can also see an old-fashioned
radio in the dashboard console. Above the dashboard, a phone holder is attached to
the windscreen.
Friends, click on the link in the first paragraph for details if you wish to join this
friendly community of writers. Here is my short poem to the tune of the prompt:
And the GPS is worthless And your iPhone will prove useless For the place where grandpa's going Requires a deck for directions © selma ❤️❤️❤️
SHARING:
I forget if it was for tin or aluminum, or for steel, or thereafter that my dear
husband gifted me a cute car (keijidōsha) for our anniversary. I had dented
the family van once too many times and needed a compact-sized car for the
narrow roads in our town.
My cute red Honda was equipped with a cassette deck, and on all my taxiing
with the kiddos around town, we listened to cassette tapes. Ah, the good old
days: I felt grounded and safe in that car, and truth be told, I never dented it.
Not even once!
The photo that follows depicts the car I drive now. Another cute Kei car–a
Suzuki box car. But this one is blue-grey and has a high ceiling that could come
in handy for when I wear a beehive hairdo. But I seldom drive it; walk instead.
It has a few dents and no cassette deck. [just sayin’].
FYI:
Kei car (or keijidōsha), “light automobile”, refers to the Japanese vehicle category
for the smallest highway-legal passenger cars with restricted dimensions and
engine capacity. Similar Japanese categories exist for micro vans and kei trucks.
These vehicles are most often the Japanese equivalent of the European Union’s
A-segment “city cars” >> which is what my red Honda looked like.
Thanks for reading.
Get your moon kisses tonight (kissed BY The M00N).
The blue moon tonight will balance your mood…
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Such a lovely poem.
I’m delighted you liked it Diana. Thanks for reading and commenting, dear friend. xoxo
I love your take Selma. Sometimes, modern gadgetry is useless and one has to rely on old fashioned methods. Thanks for sharing your lovely memories. I too used to do that. Thanks for joining in.
Modern gadgetry is dependent on something else: namely WiFi. And one becomes disoriented when the gadgets don’t function because of being in some remote place or other. That’s the part I was going for in the poem, Sadje. We, (me) old timers, know of a time when those gadgets were nonexistent and knew how to find our bearings. Well, the era did something to us. We cannot blame the youngsters for not knowing what we know. But there’s always more than meets the eye.
Thanks for the prompt, Sadje. It made me a little chatty about an old memory of my red Honda. haha. Thanks. Bless you and bless the moon tonight.
You’re so right my friend. I can easily find my way without the GPS, with the help of landmarks or by asking people. This new generation doesn’t know how to do either. I enjoyed reading about your memories
Thanks, Sadje.
My pleasure
Selma, a lovely poem and capturing the limitations of modern gadgets! For directions I still have the good old-fashioned map in the car a well as using the mobile phone! There is something very poignant about cassette tapes. I enjoyed hearing about your cars and I miss those with the cassette player! A few years ago my husband built me a special bookcase for all my old tapes that were stored in the loft and I enjoy listening to them once again! Xx
Tapes marked a special era for us. The young will not understand this. The tape deck in my old Honda was a special order and one I couldn’t be without.
I also had a tape player in the house but that broke and left me with tapes tapes tapes. One day I will ask Santa for one… Thanks for reading. Blessings on your new month, Annika. xoxo
Beautiful poem. Nice you sharing old & New gadgets. I can easily find my way without the GPS, with the help of landmarks and asking people. This new generation doesn’t know how to do either.
It is so true what you say. The new generation doesn’t know how to do those things. I am pleased you enjoyed this poem. Happy September, my friend. xoxo
Yes, you are right new generation doesn’t know those things.
Thanks, Selma
A charming walk down memory lane, Selma! I sold my car last year, and got a great price for it. We only need one car these days, but I surely miss my GPS. The one on my phone works; I just have to get used to it!
We are never too old to learn new things. I am terrible with directions and could go around and around following my tail but in the end I get where I need to go… Blessings.
When you wear a beehive hairdo, please do post pictures.❤️
Hehe. I will then … 🙈
How lovely, Selma!
<3
David
Thanks for reading and commenting on this one, dear David. Thanks for the support. xoxo
Lovely reminiscence. I did have a taste of the 90s. My teens started in the new millennium though, but we were slower to adjust then than we are now in this global world
It was a tremendously lovely prompt. We reminisce about a time whose tang remains after all these years. Thanks for reading and commenting, though I see you as Anonymous. xo