These are great! Especially love number two(too true) and number five(that was my phone at six too).
PhotoNat
Call BR 549. (Junior Samples on Hee Haw)
Grew up on south side of Chicago. We had a pay phone in our house. It cost a nickel to make a call. Once a month someone from the telephone company would come to open the box with a special key and remove the coins. My mother always kept nickels by the phone so calls could be made. All calls went through an operator. Long distance calls required additional amounts of money. The operator would break in to inform you when to add more coins. I remember our number. It was 2345. Yes, I am old!
Thanks for the morning laugh Mark!
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
I can remember in the 1940's when the operator came on and asked, "Number please?" Aw, the good old days.
Stash
Loc: South Central Massachusetts
I still have an old type flip phone and have no plan to replace it.
The one about the Turn Signals is quite correct. But, HEY, Folks do not realize that the "GREEN LIGHT" means to put down that Darn phone, and GOOOO !
A LOTTA LAUGHS THOUGH, Thanks !
Thanks for the comments. Happy to hear some enjoyed the post.
Go Duke!!
Mark
SteveR wrote:
Day at the museum is hilarious and spot on.
Day at the museum is PATHETIC! Take those high priced time wasters away from them.
markngolf wrote:
Sent to me by a cousin. I use my cell phone frequently, but my life is complete without one.
Enjoy,
Mark
The cell phone: yet another of the modern day advances that cause one to ask how the world's population ever grew to six billion before the minimum level of life-enhancing technology was attained.
boberic
Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
markngolf wrote:
Yes, we had one too in the 40's/50's. I have to admit that occasionally I did listen in on the party line. I still remember my phone number from the 40's. Asbury 6491J. (Lived near Asbury Park, NJ)
Mark
Mine was Ravenswood 8 2491. That was when kids went out to play. Now-they sit on their asses get fat and never go outside, except to buy a new cell phone.
I turn on my cell phone about 2-3 hours a year.
My grandkids were flipping thru my high school year book, strictly for laughs, when the came across my graduation picture. They wanted to know what the letters and numbers were after my name: RA 1-2507. So I gave them a history lesson on phone numbers, area codes, etc.. About an hour later my 11 year old grandson holding up his phone and pointing to the keypad said: “Hey, Gramps, these are the same letters you were talking about!”
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