I'm not surprised in the least. Didn't "The King of Queens" do a series of shows about this same thing? (I don't know since I don't watch the show, just saw the previews)

Anyhow, think about it. We've been slowly getting lazier and lazier. These are things I did as a kid that I don't do now (not just me, everyone I know too)
* Flush the toilet by myself in public - a seeing eye does that for me. Sometimes they turn water on and dispense paper towels too.
* Roll my car windows down. I push a button now.
* Get up and change the tv channel. I push buttons nows
* brush my teeth using up and down and circular motions. Now I have an electric toothbrush.... a fews ago the little spinning head wasn't spinning and I stood at the sink thnking "oh no, now what am I gonna do?!" and then reality kicked in: brush like I used to!
* How about the new washers that wash AND dry. Really, how hard is it to remove clothes from the washer to toss into the dryer? 1 whole minute? And what about clothes you don't want to shrink in the dryer?

There's more but I'm not particuarly inspired today.