Children and the telephone
Jul 3rd 2009, 7:15 am
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Children and the telephone
Teaching Mitten how to ring Nanna herself:
Mitten this is the number 3571191, just press the numbers on the phone and then wait for Nanna to answer.
Mummy there is no 11
Mitten this is the number 3571191, just press the numbers on the phone and then wait for Nanna to answer.
Mummy there is no 11
Jul 3rd 2009, 12:43 pm
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Re: Children and the telephone
When my nephew (brain-damaged by hydrocephalus) was in his early teens he twice phoned up the Falkirk fire brigade to my sister's house when he was watching the film 'Towering Inferno'. My sister had to put a lock on the dial (that was in the days before push button phones) ! 
Jul 3rd 2009, 12:46 pm
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Re: Children and the telephone
When my nephew (brain-damaged by hydrocephalus) was in his early teens he twice phoned up the Falkirk fire brigade to my sister's house when he was watching the film 'Towering Inferno'. My sister had to put a lock on the dial (that was in the days before push button phones) !
You could get round the lock by slightly depressing the cradle and dialling out the number like morse code...allegedly!
Jul 3rd 2009, 4:15 pm
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Re: Children and the telephone
That was back in the day when you still occassionally had cross-talk on telephones. Actually, in Kuwait it was usually rather than occassionally. It was a furtive boyhood joy earwigging on the conversations of others.
