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re: Before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:14 pm to iPadThai
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:14 pm to iPadThai
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Our family trick: when finished with activities, I’d call home “collect” (free for me) from a payphone; my parents would *not* accept the charges (free for them) and hang up. It served as my signal for them to come pick me up.
You have a Collect Call from:
Bob WeHadABabyItsABoy
Do you accept the charges?
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Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:15 pm to stendulkar
quote:
I would set a prearranged time for my boyfriend to call (after midnight) and I would call time and temperature one minute before said time so his call would come thru on call waiting and not wake my parents. It worked flawlessly!
Did this one with my girlfriend back in the day.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:15 pm to sweetwaterbilly
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What is “time and temperature?” Is it just what it sounds like? A number you call and they tell you the time and temp?
The library help line was like Bronze Age Google.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:16 pm to stendulkar
When I was in 11th grade, I tried calling my girlfriend. The phone rang and rang and rang until finally her dad, who was about 6’5” and 300lbs, answered. I asked to speak to her and his response was simply “you’re a persistent little son of a bitch, aren’t you?”. His daughter came to the phone after a minute or so of talking to her dad, which seemed like forever, and we proceeded to talk about whatever it was that 11th grade boyfriends/girlfriends talked about 
. Poor bastard is dead now.
. Poor bastard is dead now. 
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:18 pm to iPadThai
quote:You have received a collect call from, "HEYITSMEIMBACKFROMTHEGAMEIMWAITINGOUTFRONTOFTHESCHOOLCOMEGETME". Do you accept charges?
Our family trick: when finished with activities, I’d call home “collect” (free for me) from a payphone; my parents would *not* accept the charges (free for them) and hang up. It served as my signal for them to come pick me up.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:18 pm to stendulkar
quote:
I would set a prearranged time for my boyfriend to call (after midnight) and I would call time and temperature one minute before said time so his call would come thru on call waiting and not wake my parents. It worked flawlessly!
Thats pretty smart. Never heard of that when I was a kid
My brother and I had our own line
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:21 pm to stendulkar
Not funny stories, but I used to call my friend and every time his dad would pick up the phone.
Friend's Dad: Hello
Me: "Hello, Is [friend] there?"
Friend's Dad: "Yes, he is."
-- Silence --
Me: "Okay."
Friend's Dad: "Do you want to talk to him?"
Me: "Yes."
Every. fricking. Time.
Same thing would happen when I would go down the street to hang out in elementary school. I'd ask if he was there, his dad would stand there like a giant and just say yes. I'd stand there awkwardly until he broke the silence.
I didn't understand at the time that he was trying to teach me that I needed to speak up if I wanted something. I was also the person that didn't understand if someone asked "I don't know, can you?" that didn't mean I got to decide if I could or not.
Other than awkward interactions just prank calls with my friends late at night. Nothing revolutionary.
Friend's Dad: Hello
Me: "Hello, Is [friend] there?"
Friend's Dad: "Yes, he is."
-- Silence --
Me: "Okay."
Friend's Dad: "Do you want to talk to him?"
Me: "Yes."
Every. fricking. Time.
Same thing would happen when I would go down the street to hang out in elementary school. I'd ask if he was there, his dad would stand there like a giant and just say yes. I'd stand there awkwardly until he broke the silence.
I didn't understand at the time that he was trying to teach me that I needed to speak up if I wanted something. I was also the person that didn't understand if someone asked "I don't know, can you?" that didn't mean I got to decide if I could or not.
Other than awkward interactions just prank calls with my friends late at night. Nothing revolutionary.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:22 pm to sweetwaterbilly
quote:
What is “time and temperature?” Is it just what it sounds like? A number you call and they tell you the time and temp?
Basically. We would call the movie theater and let the robot cycle through the showings.
Having to call the theater to pick a movie time seems like such a foreign concept now
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:23 pm to Tbonepatron
quote:
You have a Collect Call from:
Bob WeHadABabyItsABoy
Do you accept the charges?
exactly what I thought ofPosted on 5/31/22 at 9:25 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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What about party lines?
In the early '50s we lived out in the country with a crank-phone on a 4 way party line. Our "number" was "2 short rings."
One of the people on the party line would always listen in on others' calls. She'd wait until the phone stopped ringing and then pick up and listen. Parents could tell when she picked up so they'd start making up weird crap to talk about.
I wasn't old enough to get phone privileges then. By the time I was 12, we had a real dial phone.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:25 pm to stendulkar
Looking back I talked to my girlfriend on the phone for 2 hours sometimes and I bet we said a total of 100 words between us. Loooooot of dead space.
“Whatcha doing?”
“Nothing.”
What are you doing?”
“Nothing.”
“Whatcha doing?”
“Nothing.”
What are you doing?”
“Nothing.”
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:26 pm to bee Rye
I can still hear that moviefone fricks voice in my head after all these years
Helooooo and welcome to moviefone!
Helooooo and welcome to moviefone!
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:27 pm to stendulkar
I remember being really quiet to try and hear if my parents or sisters picked up and were snooping on my call with my gf
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:27 pm to stendulkar
quote:387-5411
I would call time
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:28 pm to stendulkar
Prank calls were so easy because of no caller ID. We would call local radio talk shows and drop f-bombs because of no 3 second delay. It was a running contest.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:28 pm to stendulkar
quote:
Anybody have any funny stories from the pre-cellphone era?
Prank call from a municipality phone line resulted in the Feds paying a visit.
The recorded tape was produced and played for said fed agents.
They couldn’t contain their facial expressions and obviously found the call funny AF.
Fortunate for us, this was pre 9/11 so there were no overreactions and a sense of humor regarding the call.
I wrote an apology letter to the “victim”.
Chief said no more prank calls on duty.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:29 pm to PillPusher
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Looking back I talked to my girlfriend on the phone for 2 hours sometimes and I bet we said a total of 100 words between us. Loooooot of dead space.
If you told me now that I had to talk to someone on the phone for two or three hours I would wonder what the hell I was being punished for. It would be absolute torture. I have no idea how I did it back then.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:29 pm to stendulkar
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Anybody have any funny stories from the pre-cellphone era?
I had all the numbers I got written on my door, and had most of them memorized
I’d say 80% of the numbers I have memorized to this day were ones written on that door
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:30 pm to bee Rye
quote:
Having to call the theater to pick a movie time seems like such a foreign concept now
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:30 pm to stendulkar
quote:pics?
stendulkar
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