Skills you have that are obsolete

Copy editing, apparently.

 

Manual trans can get you a better price on a car in some places. Terrier mentioned one of mine, guess another would be flipping baseball cards. although just flipping cards is mostly luck, we would play closest to the wall gets all the cards. it's not completely obsolete, got at least 30 Dane Iorg and Jamie Quirk cards from the early 80s Tops sets.

 

My grandfather was a doctor and he had matchbooks with his name, including title, on them. They had to be from the 1970's. My mom still had some of them up to a few years ago.

 

Putting quarters in a pay phone is a pretty obsolete skill. It's gotten to the point that a phone booth gets put on the National Register of Historic Places.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/71702/arkansas-phone-booth-got-national-register-historic-places

 

I think we're stretching the definition of the word "skill" here.

 

Cursive handwriting.

 

Maybe FB got the idea from here: Not just useless, obsolete

 

Beautiful schoolboy cursive, indeed.

How to change a typewriter ribbon.

Fair base of knowledge on Soviet Russia.

 

I used to be a precision machinist. I could fabricate lots of stuff (with tolerances as small as +/- 0.00005 in.) out of lots of materials. I could operate milling machines and lathes and grinders, and I could make a pretty good living doing so.

Those skills aren't obsolete, but they're not nearly as marketable as they once were.

 

Making change.

I worked in my father's store before electronic cash registers did all the work.

Your total is $8.17 and you give me $20.25, I can count back the $12.08 change without prompt.

 

Heard during first grade we had to learn cursive in second grade. Freaked out about this terrible prospect, I spent the summer teaching myself how to write cursive.