There are a lot of things that we old geezers do that today’s young whippersnappers would never comprehend.

I don’t mean to dis millennials, et al; it’s just that some of these facts are, well, factual.

• Writing letters to send in the mail.

No, I don’t mean emails or faxes.

Speaking of which, faxing has become rather obsolete in and of itself, no? Methinks so.

Kids today will never understand the excitement of getting from that pal whom you stay in touch with though she moved out of state when you were both 12, OK?

• Indulging in old-school hobbies such as knitting, crocheting and / or gardening.

Of the lattermost, my pop used to put in a garden so big that it eventually wound up spanning the entire backyard lot of our little Cape Cod, back in the day. That meant we had chores such as shucking corn, snapping the ends off green beans and other veggies before washing them so Mom could freeze them. Then, of course, there was the endless picking and canning of strawberries and tomatoes.

Sure, we hated doing it as kids, but it’s among the many lost arts on today’s young’ns.

• Using a landline telephone and / or calling 411 for information.

That’s right, kiddos, we used to call some faceless Joe or Josephine to ask him / her for a phone number we were trying to find. Naturally, websites such as www.spokeo.com or www.phonewhiz.com or www.beenverified.com can reveal in a matter of milliseconds what we had to wait for Joe / Josephine what seemed like an eternity to look up and confirm for us.

• Rolling down a car window.

That’s right, we dinosaurs used a little hand-crank of sorts to get our windows to raise and lower back in the day. We did it manually; even in a stick shift. See what I did there? Hee!

• Setting an alarm clock.

We all had ’em. They were either digital or those weird-looking, number-flip deal type of clocks. Mine was the latter. Hmpf.

But kids today would find them alien, am I right? I know it doesn’t happen often but in this particular case, I believe I am.

• Having cashiers “ring up” purchases.

This wasn’t just a colloquialism. Cash registers used to have little bells in them. The cashiers would enter the price of each item on a set of mechanical levers and when they pressed the button to get the total, the price would pop up in a window and the bell would ring.

Man, I’m really dating myself with that one, no?

• Using phrases like “She sounds like a broken record.”

Believe it or not, my children, music used to be played on grooved discs called records. When these discs were scratched or otherwise damaged, it would cause the same sound to be played over and over again.

Ergo, to “sound like a broken record” was to repeat the same thing over and over. We all know people who’s needle is stuck in that scratch, a’ight?

• One last one: saying “luggage.”

Back in olden days people traveled with big, heavy bags that had no wheels or collapsible handles. This meant they had to “lug” said bags around from place to place.

There you have it — from your favorite old geezer PK.

• Kimerer is older than Samsonite but you can still reach her modernly at pkimerer@zoominternet.net.