Stopped by an old shop in Portland and felt like I stepped back 40 years

Walked into this little butcher shop off Hawthorne and they still had a hand-cranked grinder bolted to the counter, no computer in sight for orders. Am I the only one who misses that slower pace before everything went digital?

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angela_kelly16d ago

Yeah, that line about "stepping back 40 years" really hit me. I feel the same way whenever I find a spot that hasn't been wrecked by screens and automation. It's like walking into a time capsule where things actually had weight and meaning. People actually talked to each other, you know? No staring at a tablet to punch in an order, no typing while you're standing right there. That slower pace wasn't just slower, it was more human. We lost something real when we let every damn thing go digital.

sarah_nelson16d ago

Found a hardware store in my neighborhood that still uses a manual credit card imprinter. That satisfying ka-chunk sound when they slide it across the carbon paper. They write everything down in a ledger book by hand. Takes twice as long but somehow feels more real than tapping a screen.