When kids (AKA anyone younger than a millenial) today try to picture life before ubiquitous internet they always freak out about not having a maps app to get to places, or social networks, etc. But there’s something you can’t comprehend and that everyone who was a teenager or older before the late 00s have imprinted in our DNA: The boredom.
Nowadays, you can’t even start imagining how deep boredom can be. You can’t understand that infinite dread you feel when you lose your bus home and the next one don’t arrive until an hour later, so you know you are going to be waiting at the bus stop for an hour without absolutely nothing to do but looking at cars passing by.
Oh, man. My sixteenth birthday. I got home from school, and my parents were out. I realized I had forgotten my keys when I left home that morning.
I was stuck on the porch waiting for hours. In late October in the midwest. It was delightful, believe me.
