Hey guys, this is a nice memory and pretty hilarious to boot! LOL
When you didn't have to buy a new phone every week..good ol rotary dial!!
OMG! Robb! LOL!!! I shouldn't laugh too hard because I still have my flip phone [[I also smart phone) from way back and it goes with me everywhere. I keep it mainly because none of the kids out there would ever want to steal it, hehehehehehehehehe! My last traditional land line, I gave up in 2007-08.
Last edited by marv2; 11-24-2017 at 05:02 PM.
I'm not smart enough for a smart phone,and the smart phone is too smart for me,hehe!!
It comes to the point that in restaurants two people at the same table don't even speak to reach other, busy as they are with their smartphones !
I'm just like Robb, having a landline phone. I also have a cell phone that I use only to call people who don't have landline phones. The rest of the time it's sleeping [[turned off) in my car.
I was at a restaurant once when the table next to me was a father with his teenage daughter. Through their meal, the kid didn't look up one or speak to her father. When I got up to leave I wanted to take the damn phone from her and tell her that her father loves her. Get to know him.
I am the last in my family to only have a landline phone. I'll get a cell eventually but I choose to be free from them right now. My brother can't figure out why I don't want to enjoy texting and dealing with Facebook while I'm waiting in traffic or visiting the doctor.
And our landline phone is analog, too. Digital phones go out during power outages and we had four of those in two months this past summer. People look at me like they think I'm crazy to have no cell phone and to still drive the last car that I bought new 25 years ago. I'm ol' skool for life and proud of it.
I got my first cell phone 2 years ago, only because I was forced to. I have clients and work colleagues who have only a cell phone, and refuse to answer it or to phone others with it. They only text people, and insist that others text them, ONLY!
To continue working in my field, I was forced to have texting ability.
I also kept my land line for emergencies, as I have a bad short-term memory, and often forget to take my flip phones with me, or set them down somewhere in the house, forgetting where they are, and can't hear them when they ring, or feel them if I leave them on vibrate [[forget to set them back on "ring").
I have a Dutch mobile phone with an additional card for Germany and one for Denmark, plus an American one I use only in USA and Canada.
Okay, how about this for "remember when"... Remember when people would call you at home on the phone when you were late for a meeting or a date and ask the mind-numbingly stupid question "Where are you?" As if they didn't just reach you on your home phone. Now they can at least ask the question in sincerity instead of simply frustration.
Jerry you are so right. If you want to keep a kid quiet now for hours, give him or her a smart phone or a tablet. Kids today have to be told to go outside and play. I have a great nephew who is 8 years old.
I told him this past summer to go outside, find some kids and play. His response? "Play what?" LOL! Seriously, it makes me sad to see things going the way they are. Kids do not socialize much in real time anymore.
Heck it's gotten so bad that even our[turkey]had a smart phone!!
I hate that. I also hate it when people blame somebody for something that went wrong when the person clearly is feeling horrible about it. For example, if a kid left a backpack on the playground and it was gone when he went back to get it and his old man tells him "that's what you get for being stupid and leaving it."
Thanks, Pops. Really needed to hear that right now...
Last edited by marv2; 11-26-2017 at 02:42 PM.
Remember when mom would say..boy i'll slap you so hard,you'll think that lightning struck..haaaaaaaaa..of course if you valued your well being it was best to just shuttup!!
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa,yep,my wife spoils our grandson to death,but his father[my son]never got away with half that stuff,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Did anyone else stare up at the sun for too long and wonder why no one else seemed to notice that it had a black disk in the middle...or am I the only one here who was ever that stupid?
Nah. You aren't the only one to do that.
Yeah. But I was only 6 or 7 when I did it.
You post just put me in a state of depression, 144man. I don't even drink but I think I'm going to get one now.
I remember as a kid facing the sun with my eyes closed and the red glow under my eye lids.
Did you ever look up at the sun as a kid while walking down the street and think that it was following you?
Remember all of those weird shaped Christmas hard candy? LOL
For those of us who get snow,remember when it always snowed on christmas? Now it's[75degrees]outside on christmas day,and whatever happened to[christmas movies on christmas eve???]now all i see are horror flicks...what the hell???????
I remember waking up after barely being able to sleep, running down to where Mom and Dad passed out the presents under the tree, and calling my cousin to see what he got before one of us ran the six blocks to share and enjoy the day. Now, a kid couldn't go running down the street with a Hot Wheels box or Tyco racing box in his hand without getting mugged before he got past the corner. Heck, I don't even know if kids play with actual toys these days instead of computer games and cell phone apps.
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