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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11252073)
Really? My daughter never speaks on the phone, just sends thousands of texts and those picture things.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11252077)
I told little Miss P recently that when I was a child we had one phone for the whole family, wired permanently to the wall, near the front door, and that there was no such thing a mobile phone. She just laughed hysterically! :lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11252073)
..... and those picture things.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11252077)
I told little Miss P recently that when I was a child we had one phone for the whole family, wired permanently to the wall, near the front door, and that there was no such thing a mobile phone. She just laughed hysterically! :lol:
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Nutek
(Post 11252083)
Ours used to be on the wall near the front door as well. Wonder how that became a common place for it?
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
(Post 11252086)
I can remember a US comedy back in the 70's(?) and where the family had the phone in the kitchen, but it had a massive long curlycord so the kids could take it to sit at the bottom of the stairs while they were talking....I can remember thinking "how great it would be, if only........"
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Nutek
(Post 11252083)
Ours used to be on the wall near the front door as well. Wonder how that became a common place for it?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
(Post 11252090)
Ours was on a table just inside the front door...I suspect it was a logistics thing....that was the easiest/closest place to drill through? But it made sense, because it was also at the bottom of the stairs, so it was probably the most central part of the house to reach from anywhere.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
FWIW, ours was also in the hallway, by the front door, in our first house. A 70s GPO Trimphone, as far as I remember. Then in the new house it was hanging up in the kitchen, very close to, and in sight of, the front door. Can't remember the type of phone but the newsroom phones in Drop The Dead Donkey had exactly the same ring, which was fun.
No my mum's gone all fancy and got herself a cordless phone. Such extravagance. It probably has caller ID as well, as if 1471 wasn't good enough ... |
Re: Pet Peeves?
We still had one phone in the hall before we moved over here.
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11252092)
That sounds like Roseanne. Except that was from the 80s and 90s,
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
(Post 11252120)
It may have crept into the 80's, but its not Roseanne I'm thinking of....this was more happy days/70's show style....apple-pie-baking-mom with teenage kids...
Roseanne was the one I remember having the massive long cord on the phone. I think it was common out here at the time though. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11252093)
It was where the wire came into the house, and extra feet of wire was expensive. :nod: Back then the phone network was a government monopoly too, so you got a phone when and where the government said you could have a phone! :(
Yes, all of these. ..... If we were upstairs, we'd come leaping down the stairs when the phone rang! By the time we moved, we had gone to 5538, then 75538, then they started taking extra numbers on the area code till we had grown to 10 digits.... |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11252126)
Oh, maybe the Brady Bunch or something.
Roseanne was the one I remember having the massive long cord on the phone. I think it was common out here at the time though. Coulda been the Brady Bunch...certainly more of that ilk than Roseanne |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11252126)
Oh, maybe the Brady Bunch or something.
Roseanne was the one I remember having the massive long cord on the phone. I think it was common out here at the time though. |
Re: Pet Peeves?
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
(Post 11252167)
And answer it with "<name of town> 538"!!
By the time we moved, we had gone to 5538, then 75538, then they started taking extra numbers on the area code till we had grown to 10 digits.... |
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