We sat at Great Grandma’s feet as she told us again about when she was a little girl and all the houses had something called electricity.
“It was wonderful,” she said, “At a flick of a switch we could light all our rooms and heat them. We’d watch TV and cook meals in our microwaves. Such happy times.”
I tried not to yawn but I knew what was coming next, it was always the same. She’d go on for ages about strange machines called computers and some Internet thingy.
I often wonder where Great Grandma gets these weird stories from.
A 100-word story for this week’s prompt at Friday Fictioneers.
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Mike Jackson 
Throw another of those book thingies on the fire
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Thanks for dropping by Neil.
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Some might argue it would be a good thing for the internet to recede into history – at least the less savoury parts of it.
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Many of us would like to see the back of the ‘unsavoury’ but, unfortunately once the beast called the Internet was unleashed it took on an uncontrollable life of its own.
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Nice one!
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Thanks for your comment Rajani.
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When the far future becomes living in the distant past, just to save the planet.
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Thanks for dropping by James.
I’m often, falsely as it happens, tempted to think that the good old days were not that bad!
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Well done. The word “thingy” is such a fav for me — ’tis like a hook. 🙂
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Thanks for your comments Bill.
I love the word ‘thingy’! A word to describe so many things.
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Right. It is not the same word as thing with a y. 🙂
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A reverse world to our times.
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Or maybe a world we are heading towards?
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Now, that’s MY kind of story! Left me wanting to hear where the electricity went. 🙂 ❤
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Now there’s another story. What did happen to the electricity…?
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Indeedy, so… solar flares do have a propensity for inducing EMP (electo-magnetic pulse) similiar to what happens after a nuke… They’ll also mess with tides, jet stream, possibly even temperatures… would have to do some more research on them, methinks.
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Since I AM the grandma, this could have been me at some other place in time :). I enjoyed this very much.
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Thanks for your comments.
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The internet thingy has an awful lot to answer for. Nice one.
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It does indeed!
Thanks for dropping by, Keith.
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So interesting to imagine what life in the next few generations might look like … can we go any further forward? Or will we indeed revisit the past? Great story.
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It may well happen! Can’t say I’d be totally unhappy if it did.
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