Kommenlassen - To Send For

I’ve genuinely drawn a blank on this one. I can’t think of anything to write. I considered musing about a time when you had to send off tokens from cereal boxes to receive worthless Kelloggs-branded tat, but I got about as far as the first half of this sentence before running out of steam. Plus that would be sending off for stuff, and therefore quite inaccurate. If I was going to get away with that, it would open the floodgates to topics as clearly imprecise as reminiscing over times when TV shows required viewers to send up to four stamped addressed envelopes in to get instructions on how to build the latest Blue Peter papier mache project. I suppose the Internet is the common killer forcing each of these topics well and truly into the past. Instead of sending tokens in the post, you just input a unique code on web site. Similarly, to get a booklet on how to make the modern-day equivalent of whats-her-face’s Tracy Island, you just head to the relevant internet page. While it obviously makes both far less hassle, there was always something about the anticipation, that wait of up to two weeks before you got your hands on that plastic Cornflakes rooster or how-to-make-a-volcano instructions that’s lost with the instant gratification of the Internet age. The problem is I, like most people, have been spoilt by the web to the point where I can’t bear to wait more than a few days for something I’ve ordered, making talking in weeks absolutely unthinkable!