There's a new machine at the BX. 

It's a DVD rental machine.

Using the touch screen you choose the movie that you want (I got 'Meet The Fockers' because I liked the prequel), you swipe your bank or credit card, pay the $1.53 rental fee (cheap!!), and the machine spits out your DVD from a little slot in the front.  You can return the movie the same way.

So me and my friend were part of a little crowd of stay-at-home moms and wives surrounding this machine today, oohing and aaahing over how cool it was, when some kid (as in one-striper; he was probably all of 19 or 20) walks past and sniffs "oh we've had those for years in California.  That's nothing......".

I feel old and technolgically wee-todd-ed now.  I feel like my parents must have felt when me and my brother tried to show them how to work the VCR or program digital watches. 

I get excited over silly things....like DVD rental machines and coffee pots without carafes, cell phones with cameras in them and cars with On-Star.  Those things are wonderous to me....because I grew up in an age where we simply didn't have things like that.  Heck, cassette platers were hip when I was growing up.  CD's hadn't even been heard of, cell phones were huge, brick-like contraptions and computers were green text only...no pictures, and no internet.

My age is showing, and I don't like it.