Skills you have that are obsolete

Paste up. They don't teach you that any more.

 

Isn't that geometry?

 

Hang on to that. It may come back.

 

What? What did you say?

 

Reading a sundial.

 

He's speaking Esperanto.

In the 70s we were all going to learn it, all the rage for a time.

 

I once had a radio production professor tell me that I cut some of the tightest, and cleanest, reel-to-reel splices he'd ever heard. Two years later - my senior year - they threw out those machines. I should've taken that as a hint.

 

I used to be able to throw a newspaper like I was Koufax painting the black.

 

Nowadays you'd be restricted to a 50-house limit and be a top candidate for TJ/Rotator Cuff surgeries.

 

Use of the VHS shuttle/jog knob while watching the good parts of porn.

Money shot!

 

Just a hunch, but I suspect that skill was obsolete a couple of centuries before you learned it.

 

I can still use a proportion wheel. And a pica pole.