The Gratitude Game

[12yearsinazkaban]

You pretend you are a time traveller from the past and have to say how amazed you are by our 'every day things'

It will make you change your perspective!

I read something about time travellers nor veing excited by TV or smart phones but being wowed by our extensive wardrobes and spice cabinets.
Vanilla and honey are the food of gods, now vanilla is 'plain'.

Anyone else have anything to add?

proof read! being not veing

Running water inside .
Toilets.
Windows - such light!
One family per house, not per room (in the case of tenements)

I was going to say windows! I think they are a pane to keep clean oh I'm so funny but they are amazing!

Bloody supermarkets! what are they?!!! or the 'world aisle' absolutely mind boggling !

Amongst many other things . . .
I am grateful everyday for my flushing toilets!

(after experiencing the aftermath of a devastaing earthquake)

*every day

Plumbing - central heating, a flushing loo, hot water on demand and a constant supply of safe drinking water would blow the minds of most people who who existed before about 150 years ago.

Also, I think sometimes it's not so much things themselves that would amaze time travellers, but more that ordinary people had ready access to them. There was a line in the BBC version of Dracula a couple of years back when Dracula says something like 'I knew the future would contain wonderful things, but I didn't know they would be ordinary', and that is exactly it. So, a peasant from Tudor times would not be amazed by the actual food in a Sunday roast dinner, but they would be absolutely stunned by the idea of working class people eating it regularly.

I think time travellers from any time other than the very recent past would be blown away by the rights and protection modern-day children have (and then blown away further by the fact that so many children still aren't safe, despite everything ) Sorry, bit of a downer there.

@Wookydook

Running water inside . Toilets. Windows - such light! One family per house, not per room (in the case of tenements)

The romans had plumbing. Fresh water brought to small towns and waste taken away.

Wealthy romans had indoor plumbing. They had indoor hot and cold running water and toilets which would flush the waste away. That's not new!