The spoiled under-30 crowd!!!

[dougp26364]

Originally Posted by JoAnn

OK you "kids", I can remember when we only had 4 (that's right FOUR) numbers to dial. There were no prefixes, but they came out when I was in high School and some one from the Bell system came to our school and explained the new system or letters/names and numbers, i.e WELls_1234, or was it just WE-1234?? Some one from the audience (probably a guy ) asked how we were to dial the dash!!!!

When we were first married, we lived with DH's parents on the farm. They did not have a rotary phone...but the old fashioned crank phone. And their "ring" was something like 2 long-1 short. I believe at that time there were 4 others on the line. You could hear the other 3 party liners rings, and you could (and many times did) pick up your phone and listen in. No wonder everyone in that town knew everything about everyone!!!

The first phone number I remember was South-****. But it seems you had to dial the numbers associated with South (SO if memory serves me correctly) to be connected. Not just the numbers. At the time, we lived in South Kansas City.

[stratusnj75]

I am 34 and never thought of myself as getting old. Then one day around two years ago, my 10 year old step daughter come running in to the living room with a look of panic on her face and our cordless house phone in her hand. She extends the phone out to her mother and says

"Mommy, Mommy! There is something wrong with the phone! Listen!" My wife puts the phone up to her ear and is immediately on the floor rolling with laughter. On the phone, a busy signal, which the 10 year old had never heard before.

That is the day I realized I was getting old.

Devin

[tonyg]

Phone locks, party lines, dialing 4, then 5 then 7 numbers- I remember. It was the 1980's where I now live that we finally could get rid of the rotary phone where I worked (touch tone and pulse didn't work in a power outage). I still have a non electric typewriter, tho I haven't used it in years (I use the electric one). I never remember drinking out of a hose and if you look
at the first spring hose contents, you will wonder how you didn't die from it.

Now it seems those with allergies have increased dramatically along with the upward trend in ADD, ADHD, autism, back trouble and other problems. Now no one seems to be able to go anywhere without a cellphone.

[ptprism]

OH yeah...my daughter was surprised when she found out that Paul McCartney was in a different band before "Wings"....

[falmouth3]

I have friends who were eating corn on the cob and saying "ding" at the end of the cob, then moving back to the other end of the cob and chewing to the end, with another "ding". Their daughter had no clue what they were doing. She thought her parents had gone bonkers. Well, maybe they had.

[susieq]

Originally Posted by Joe L

Speaking of rotary phones. I remember this lock my parents put on it. It locked into one of the numbers so you couldn't dial. Anyone else remember the lock?

Oh Yea!! - I remember that!! My parents put one on our rotary phone - the phone with a PARTY line!!

Originally Posted by vintner

After the Junior High School (now they are Middle Schools) burned down, we had split shifts in the high school. I would go to school in the afternoon, and then I would walk my paper route.

Our High School was on double sessions - while the new one was built. I went to school from 7 - 12:30. There was no whining about getting up too early, ( at least I don't recall any..........), we were out early enough to hold a job, (which I walked to...).

Thanks for the memories............