Rewind
It occurred to me the other day that while the word “rewind” remains in my vocabulary, it’s become a bit of a misnomer. I no longer really rewind anything. I don’t rewind my cassette tapes. I no longer need be kind & rewind my VCR rentals. In fact, I don’t really use anything that literally rewinds.
I still rewind & go back, however. I rewind a DVD, I rewind a CD, my iPod, streaming media, and one of the features I love most of my Tivo is the ability to rewind.
Mark my words, but one day — and it will a day where you feel your oldest — in 30 or 40 years, a kid living in an even more digital world, will ask you why we “rewind” things, without honestly a clue in the world.
When that happens, my own plan is not to answer them. Instead, following in the footsteps of Plato, I have my own question for them: Why do DVD players have both a stop and a pause button?
Answer that one, you little snoot-nosed brat.
