Microwave ovens.
Sorry if this was already mentioned, I thought I read through the entire thread pretty thoroughly, (At Sue's recommendation) thank you Sue this is a delightful thread. I could have missed this one.....
The first microwave oven I remember was in a convience store. That was back around 1979 or 1980. We could heat up the frozen burritos and other assorited little frozen foods at the store in them. I was amazed how fast and how hot they made those little frozen foods. There was a sign on the door warning that a microwave oven was in use I think for heart patients with pace makers.
Before having one in the home, we used to have to reheat left over food in a pot on the stove leaving a big mess to clean up. The microwave has made life so simple in more ways than that, but what would I do without one in my home these days....I have a friend whose microwave broke (program obsolete) and never boaght a new one. When she told me that I thought she was crazy, but she says she doesnt miss it?
Program obsolete.. For quite a while now they make things like microwaves, coffee pots, portable phones, cd players etc.... all our electronic devices to evenutually fall apart.. Its more economical to buy a new one then to pay to get the old one fixed... Ala program obsolete..
The computer brain in the cars made now...i bought a used car one time which I soon found out needed a new brain. What a disaster.
My daughter was in an aweful situation on the road where another car flipped over and landed in her lane...not to get gory so i wont, but the cop used a machine he hooked up to her car and it told him how fast she was driving, whether or not seat belts were worn, when she applied the brakes all kinds of little info...its amazing.
As for the gore if anyone really wants to know she ran over one of the bodies that was ejected from the suv that flipped. It was NOT her fault..there is a God