What idea or invention did you think would never become popular?

Boys and young men wearing their jeans below their fanny and holding them up to walk with a thumb in a belt loop, or by walking with legs a yard apart.

STUPID!

I totally agree that Water, of any kind, that you had to PAY for, seemed quite impossible at the time.

I pick the VCR for recording off TV was something I never thought would have a go. I bought mine in 1980, with the bulky camera system. I never would have believed that we would have a choice of movies to watch from a lower cost rental, from their first $5 for the first and $4 for other movies. That the price would fall for the recorder/players, and that movies would be at a price affordable to most people. Disney and Sony said years back that there was no way ET or Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia would ever go to tape. Then they found they could make millions and more with a movie they couldnt afford to take theatrically anymore. That so many people would begin recording off tv, just staggered my imagination.

I found an unauthorized use for a side handle baton. ( PR 24) When the bosses made you run radar at 3 am, you could keep your head up by shoving the stick into the front of your gun belt and using the side handle to rest your chin on. If you used the Doppler radar with the volume set just right, you could even hear the sound enough to wake up before getting busted by the boss as he tried to sneak up on you.

(Well, maybe I never did this but you always deny, deny, deny and demand proof)( I hated writing tickets)( and yes, you do hear your call number even under those circumstances. Never missed a call nor was late)

Now, I understand all the yougins do this very thing and I never got credit for it

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When I was a child in the 50s, we were told that some day our telephones would have a screen so the speakers could see each other. I never did think much of that idea. It still hasn't happened, so maybe the marketers agreed.

I was dead wrong on Kindle, though. I didn't think anyone would prefer a little screen to a physical book. The next thing I knew, the Kindle orders were so backed up they had to start a waiting list.

Plastic money. Sure, there was the Diner's Club card and a few others, but when 40 some years ago I heard that we would be using plastic cards to pay for things, I just could not see it. Now, my debit card gets quite a workout. I don't carry much cash. AMEX coined the "Don't leave home without it" phrase and the rest is history.

When young, I remember hearing in the future we would have to pay for TV and water. That's ridiculous. Everyone knows water is free and how would we put the quarter in the TV set? I also didn't think the microwave would catch on or that I would even buy one for more than defrosting hamburg. Now a whole food industry uses it as the method of preparation, including restaurants.

Bottled water. I was riding with a friend of mine and we saw a fellow selling gallon jugs of water for a dollar from his natural spring and I told my friend that is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. This was about twenty years ago and guess I was mistaken. I never buy the stuff myself but know many that will drink nothing but.

I can't top John with bottled water. I paid $2.00 for a bottle of water the last time I went to a festival!

Cell phones. I remember the first ones that came out and they were huge and sometimes came with their own bag to put in your car. Now I'm lost without my iPhone.