re: Before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer

I’d tell them to call me at midnight. At 11:58pm i would call movie theater. It’d loop forever until call waiting came in and I could answer with no ringing

We were poor growing up but my mom found money to have a “kids line” put in because, as she said, she felt like an South Central Bell switchboard operator with all the calls coming in.

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When cordless phones became common my little sister and her friends would listen to me talk to my girlfriend on my dad's police scanner

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I had an old Panasonic black and white tv. When you tuned it to a certain channel (80-something?) you could pick up cordless phones. Heard all kinds of shite on there.

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I like this one:

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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.

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When I lived out of town, what we always did was if I called home collect and used my middle name, they would not accept then call me back. If I used my first name, that meant to accept the collect call, so they would accept it then.

After practices or other school events, my siblings and I used the practice of dialing home, letting it ring once, then hanging up. Then dialing home a second time, letting it ring once, then hanging up. Kept the same dime in my wallet and used it all through high school.

Of course, at home, nobody answered the phone until it rang twice on the same call.

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City National time 10:37

my grandma still had this exact model when she passed away in 2016

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I’m in my mid 30’s, and you can go frick yourself for making me feel old right before bed

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I’m 32 and I’ve never heard of it I do remember calling the movie theater for the times but never heard of time and temp.

Also remember having to get off the internet when someone needed to use the phone

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grandma still had this exact model when she passed away in 2016

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Seeing this phone and, specifically, that cord reminds me: When we were real little, my mom would get on the phone and cook dinner, help with home work, bathe my little brother who was a baby, whip my arse for acting up, and wash clothes and never miss any part of the phone call. Now that I’m thinking about it, the cord must have stretched 20’!

I was always hoping my friends mom would answer