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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 11:58 pm to stendulkar
Posted on 5/31/22 at 11:58 pm to stendulkar
Before caller ID, I remember picking up the phone in the middle of the night thinking it was my friend, but it was actually my plant baw dad's boss calling him in, and getting in double trouble for being on the phone late AND causing him to go In tired and pissed off 
"Don't you answer that damn phone!"
"Don't you answer that damn phone!"
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Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:01 am to BigPerm30
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You remember when you would call a bunch of people with three way calling? It was what I imagine an orgy is like. It was too much and you could never understand who was fricking talking
One time in high school my side piece found out she was just a side piece and set me up. She called my girlfriend, hashed shite out, then three way'd me in without telling me that my gf was on the line as well. The call started out great. Side piece mentioned she was sore from last night and I apologized for tearing her guts up - then the girlfriend spoke for the first time.
frick three way calling. I had a great thing going there for a while.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:05 am to TigerFanatic99
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One time in high school my side piece found out she was just a side piece and set me up. She called my girlfriend, hashed shite out, then three way'd me in without telling me that my gf was on the line as well. The call started out great. Side piece mentioned she was sore from last night and I apologized for tearing her guts up - then the girlfriend spoke for the first time.
frick three way calling. I had a great thing going there for a while.
That was the best part of landlines. Back then a man could have 3 or 4 girlfriends and they'd never know unless they saw you in public. Cell phones and then Facebook killed that.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 12:21 am to stendulkar
How about grandparents? i found out way after it happened that these hot girls used to call to invite me to parties etc, when i was was a teenager visiting my grandparents during holidays and summer in late 70s and early 80s. ( it didn’t hurt that my best friend and cousin was like the king of the high school.) He tells me later that they all like to have sex with guys from out of town since we couldn’t really say shite. i had no idea because my grandparents didn’t believe it proper for them to call boys. One of them even claimed she had sex with me. Lol.
Thank God, my grandparents saved me from all that gratuitous sex. Lol
Thank God, my grandparents saved me from all that gratuitous sex. Lol
Posted on 6/1/22 at 3:08 am to VernonPLSUfan
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What about party lines? Somebody would call and if it wasn't for your home, somebody else picked up. Good fricking goodness.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 3:48 am 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?
225-387-5411
Posted on 6/1/22 at 5:21 am to Hangit
I just tried the time and temperature number for Lake Charles, 337 439 0000. It goes straight to a Life Alert ad before giving the time and temperature.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 6:10 am to stendulkar
I was talking to a girl across the street. Before caller ID. She would call and hang up. Then flick her lights on and off when it was time to call. I would then get the cordless phone and make my call.
Odd thing is. I can remember to this day my friend's phone numbers from back then. I don't know my kids or wife's numbers in my head now.
Odd thing is. I can remember to this day my friend's phone numbers from back then. I don't know my kids or wife's numbers in my head now.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 6:38 am to VernonPLSUfan
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Before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer
my wife still does not believe those existed.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 6:42 am to sweetwaterbilly
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What is “time and temperature?” Is it just what it sounds like?
I was thinking about this the other day and called the old number and it is still active. You have to listen to like two minutes of ads before they tell you the time and temp now, but it's still active. I can't imagine it gets many calls.
256-237-TIME
This post was edited on 6/1/22 at 6:43 am
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:00 am to RLDSC FAN
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considered long distance back in the 90s
Something that now a days people don’t understand that well with most cell phones having unlimited calling to the entire US and some plans even allowing calling to Mexico and Canada.
I remember when landlines had archaic calling areas that were the size of gnat, and Louisiana some areas had Local option service which will limit price to calls to certain cities depending on the distance and if it was in the same parish as you.
In the early days of the internet, this was problematic for me since my dial in number for internet was outside of this capped price.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:11 am to The Spleen
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I never minded talking to the parents, it was the siblings I hated to hear answer the phone.
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The Spleen
Were you a pussy arse liberal back then too??
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:14 am to stendulkar
*69 used to mess some people up.
How did we even talk to girls for hours? Crazy the skills it took to keep from screwing up a sure thing.
Plenty of schemes to get around mom and dad cock blocking. Girls with their own lines always put out and parents didn’t give af.
The 20’ chord was gold…until the sister would just unplug it and decide you are done.
How did we even talk to girls for hours? Crazy the skills it took to keep from screwing up a sure thing.
Plenty of schemes to get around mom and dad cock blocking. Girls with their own lines always put out and parents didn’t give af.
The 20’ chord was gold…until the sister would just unplug it and decide you are done.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:15 am to stendulkar
I remember rotary phones
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:15 am to stendulkar
We lived out in the sticks in the mid 80's and still had a freaking party line. Which meant several different people(who didn't live with you) used the same line. If our home phone rang normal, then we picked up. If it rang real fast, then it wasn't for us.
Sometimes we couldn't tell and would pick up and this mean as shite old lady would curse us out. Probably interrupting her weekly call regarding Murder, She Wrote.
Sometimes we couldn't tell and would pick up and this mean as shite old lady would curse us out. Probably interrupting her weekly call regarding Murder, She Wrote.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:27 am to Tarps99
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Something that now a days people don’t understand that well with most cell phones having unlimited calling to the entire US and some plans even allowing calling to Mexico and Canada.
It was a long distance call from where I lived to where I went to school which was only 7 miles away.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:30 am to stendulkar
When I was a kid we had a party line. One long ring and two short rings meant that the call was for our family.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:36 am to stendulkar
I think it was Columbus day my Sr. Year in High School. There wasn't much to do and my best buddy and I went out to the school for some forgotten reason. Our Football stadium was up on a hill with a gravel parking lot below it. While we were there, a couple of the members of the football team were there either doing off day work outs or getting ready for practice (I don't remember). Well, it was a long way up the hill and they asked me for a lift. No problem. They jumped on the trunk of my car and off we went. When I got up to the field house. I dropped them off.
Just like every other high school, there's a 1/4 mile track around the football stadium. Being a big nascar fan and not too far from N. Wilkesboro, my buddy and I put 2 + 2 together and decided to take a few hot laps. The football were cheering us on every time we went by. After 3 or 4 laps, we took of down the hill and did a "bootlegger" turn in the gravel parking lot throwing up a huge cloud of dust. Everyone loved it. Except the principal who we saw standing there after the dust cleared. The football coach (who was also my wrestling coach) was with him just shaking his head. I could almost hear his thought, "Dumb@$$".
Anyway after a good balling out by the principal, he told me that he was going to call my Mom and tell her what I'd done. (They'd butted heads a few times in the past, so he knew she'd be on top of it).
So I knew what was coming. In an attempt to head it off, I think I answered every phone call to our house for the next week. My plan was to simply say Mom wasn't home if he called. After a week, there was no call from the principal, so I figured I was in the clear. Nope.
The family was watching Monday Night Football and I'm sitting on the couch 3 feet from my Mom. The phone rings and I instinctively pick it up and say hello. The voice on the other end, which I instantly recognize as the principal, asks if my Mom is there. With her being so close, I can't activate my plan at this point I sheepishly say "Yes" and hand her the phone. The conversations went something like this,
"Yes, this is her."
"Yes."
"Yes."
at this point mom cuts her eyes at me with "the look" and says, "I'll take care of it."
So for the next week or 2 Mom drove me to school in here big green station wagon and dropped me off at the front door of the school. The ribbing I got from my buddies was worse than anything physically they could have done to me.
Just like every other high school, there's a 1/4 mile track around the football stadium. Being a big nascar fan and not too far from N. Wilkesboro, my buddy and I put 2 + 2 together and decided to take a few hot laps. The football were cheering us on every time we went by. After 3 or 4 laps, we took of down the hill and did a "bootlegger" turn in the gravel parking lot throwing up a huge cloud of dust. Everyone loved it. Except the principal who we saw standing there after the dust cleared. The football coach (who was also my wrestling coach) was with him just shaking his head. I could almost hear his thought, "Dumb@$$".
Anyway after a good balling out by the principal, he told me that he was going to call my Mom and tell her what I'd done. (They'd butted heads a few times in the past, so he knew she'd be on top of it).
So I knew what was coming. In an attempt to head it off, I think I answered every phone call to our house for the next week. My plan was to simply say Mom wasn't home if he called. After a week, there was no call from the principal, so I figured I was in the clear. Nope.
The family was watching Monday Night Football and I'm sitting on the couch 3 feet from my Mom. The phone rings and I instinctively pick it up and say hello. The voice on the other end, which I instantly recognize as the principal, asks if my Mom is there. With her being so close, I can't activate my plan at this point I sheepishly say "Yes" and hand her the phone. The conversations went something like this,
"Yes, this is her."
"Yes."
"Yes."
at this point mom cuts her eyes at me with "the look" and says, "I'll take care of it."
So for the next week or 2 Mom drove me to school in here big green station wagon and dropped me off at the front door of the school. The ribbing I got from my buddies was worse than anything physically they could have done to me.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:38 am to stendulkar
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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!
My parents were otherwise pretty strict, but I was given my own phone line with answering machine in high school. Mainly because we had dial-up, so it was too difficult for 4 people to arrange internet and phone usage on one line.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:53 am to The Spleen
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never minded talking to the parents, it was the siblings I hated to hear answer the phone.
Same. I knew if my girlfriend’s little sister or brother picked up we were in for frick frick games. Most of the time you could hear when they were listening in or picked up the phone in another room. Sometimes they were pretty slick though and you wouldn’t know they were ease dropping till they started giggling or started making kissing noises or something. Good times.
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