Scenes from the Classroom #43

Today, one of my favourite pieces of stationery broke. It's a plastic concertina folder that has tabbed compartments, but it opens fully rather than being a wallet. Hard to explain. Anyway, I bought it a Carrefour in France on holiday with Tutt about a decade ago and I haven't seen anything like it since. It split all down one seam and is not salvageable. I was glum when I handed Y13 back their essays - it is the folder of all marking. 

Me: I bought it on holiday in France, I'll never be able to replace it.

Them: It's bound to be on Amazon.

Me: I have looked but I don't even know what to search for.

S: You can take a picture of it to search.

Me: What! I didn't even know that was a thing!

S: Yes, search by picture.

Me: *dons reading glasses* so you mean, I should search for it in Google Lens or...

S: No, you can do it right on Amazon.

Me: *tappity tap tap* *squinty squint* *be old*

Behold, purchase options for my folder appear almost instantly. My face lights up like Christmas morning. Then, the piece de resistance...

L: Awwww!

That's it. The line is properly crossed. I am now just an old person who doesn't understand the internet. And I was basically there at the start. But still - now I'm Mother Hand. As if those years of learning HTML tags meant nothing. 

It's the beginning of the end.