Remember the days of landline phones?

Absolutely!

I remember taking a ride to the park when I was in high school a few miles away from my house growing up. Played some basketball and was the last one to leave before realizing I locked keys in car. I couldn’t flag anyone down so I went to the gas station and asked for a dime to use for the pay phone outside. The guy rolled his eyes, opened the register and gave me one. I called my dad to come bring the spare key. He was annoyed as fuck. I went and shot more hoops while I waited for him to arrive about an hr later.

Yup...

Internet brought us what we wanted the most, but took away what we needed the most.

We peaked around 1994, its been shitty ever since.
Technology will be the end of us all.

Hey hon, after Katrina, Gustav and Rita, only the landlines were working.

I wish we could go back to the days of landline phones.

Hahaha, how retarded are those kids? Wtf

The best part was when you're in a heated argument on the phone and you get sooooo pissed off, you take that receiver and SLAM IT THE FUCK DOWN on that phone so hard, you can hear the bell inside the phone rattle.

SOOOoooo satisfying when hanging up on people.

Now? It's just *press!* and "boop!"

Remember when your phone didn't give your brain cancer, vestibular schwannomas, acoustic neuromas?

Remember when your phone didn't kill your sperm?

Remember when your phone didn't give you colon cancer because you carry it your back pocket?

Remember when your phone wasn't a propaganda tool used by the Beast System?

Remember when your phone wasn't running Google Android and financially supporting pedophilia?

Yea, that's why I have a land-line.

Lmfao...I slammed it down like that once or twice. It really helped manage my anger towards the person in question.

I miss it

Yes I do, please put me down in your database as someone of that age range.

Remember when people went went full retard and switched from landline phones to ' smart phone ' tracking devices that spy, broadcast location and listen to everything their user says?

Truth.

Or, rather, the reliance on technology will be the end of us.

Either way, not looking so good...

you just pick up the talky eary thing. then jiggle the hooks it was sitting on to dial. so if you want to dial a 5, press the hooks down real quick 5 times. you dont even have to touch the spinny thing with numbers on the front.

Watch what you wish for!

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Last Edited by nineteeneightyfive on 07/11/2019 05:13 PM

Remember when phones weren't the evil population control devices that they've become.

pretty sure everyone around here uses scanners to listen in on your calls, so I use a landline at times

Remember corded phones with 40 foot cords that stretched through the whole house and the phone would ip out of your hand when someone tripped over it ?

Lol

Its true though..this smart phone thing is just too much.

That sounds like too much work lol

Crank phone ask Operator to connect.If no one there They would ring later then call You.
The Ops knew all the tales so better be nice. Our op was Becky.

I have one been trying to get rid of it having robo calls daily

I still have several old school push button phones (not rotary) that I keep on hand in case of emergency or power outage.

Have one on my kitchen counter. Just made a call. It never needs recharging. When the power goes out, I just call the power company.

Ground lines were great.

I knew ex was a little bit psychic with be because of the number of times I picked up the ground line to call him and he was already on the line. He’d been listening to the phone ring then listening to me dial him. It always made him mad. It made me laugh. This is why he is the ex.

Or two people on the same house could answer st the same time and think the other was calling from elsewhere, becoming confused with the caller listening in also confused.

Or sisters could spy on one another.

Great for 911 calls too

The store clerk rolled his eyes because you were allowed to make "collect-calls" back then where the receiver of the call would be charged.

In those days the pay phones where all over the place. And people would stop to help you out and you could always go to a nearby home and have them make the call or they would trust you to come in and call. But nowadays you cant even pull over to help someone without risking being attacked. Times were much better back then, and we all got along just fine without cell phones.

Cellphones are your doom.


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