I wonder if you get a mulligan for misdialing your only phone call in jail. Using the state of the art rotary phone I am sure you misdialed a few calls yourself. Wait, do you remember the rotary phone? I do, I was lightning fast. I could dial a number in about fifteen seconds, longer if there were a lot of nines and zeros. Don’t get me wrong here, I don’t want people to think I remember the first phone Alexander Graham Bell designed back in the 1800’s. So to the older generation, your can and string was my rotary phone. Thankfully I don’t remember talking into the phone hanging on the wall.
When making the late night phone calls the dialing of the rotary phone was so loud I was more concerned about the noise of dialing than my actual conversation waking the family. You probably would only see this phone in your grandmother’s basement or the Smithsonian. Remembering phone numbers was a lot easier back in the day because you actually dialed the numbers on the rotary phone as compared to today where everyone’s number is on speed dial. I can still tell you phone numbers of my friends I called all the way back in the fourth grade. I am not a fan of the speed dial feature.
I can’t remember the last pay phone I used. How much is a phone call these days anyway? If they totally do away with phone booths, where would Superman change? Today with cell phones many people are doing away with house phones. Me personally, I don't talk on the phone like I did growing up. I am a text fan. I would rather text than talk. Text what you have to say, you’re done. No long drawn out conversations with people you really don’t want to talk to anyway. Don’t get me wrong I am not going to have a lengthy text conversation; I would rather get on the phone, say what has to be said then end the call. I don’t understand this fascination with talking on cell phones. Everywhere you go someone is talking on a cell phone i.e. on a bus stop, in a car, doctor’s office waiting rooms, in church etc. What is so important that can’t wait? You think you are that important.
When making the late night phone calls the dialing of the rotary phone was so loud I was more concerned about the noise of dialing than my actual conversation waking the family. You probably would only see this phone in your grandmother’s basement or the Smithsonian. Remembering phone numbers was a lot easier back in the day because you actually dialed the numbers on the rotary phone as compared to today where everyone’s number is on speed dial. I can still tell you phone numbers of my friends I called all the way back in the fourth grade. I am not a fan of the speed dial feature.
I can’t remember the last pay phone I used. How much is a phone call these days anyway? If they totally do away with phone booths, where would Superman change? Today with cell phones many people are doing away with house phones. Me personally, I don't talk on the phone like I did growing up. I am a text fan. I would rather text than talk. Text what you have to say, you’re done. No long drawn out conversations with people you really don’t want to talk to anyway. Don’t get me wrong I am not going to have a lengthy text conversation; I would rather get on the phone, say what has to be said then end the call. I don’t understand this fascination with talking on cell phones. Everywhere you go someone is talking on a cell phone i.e. on a bus stop, in a car, doctor’s office waiting rooms, in church etc. What is so important that can’t wait? You think you are that important.
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