…..and after a 508 mile drive, an order for “a cold one” going by the bar on the way to the phone booth to call Mother to announce my arrival in one piece and the ever-repeated “WHY do you always stop for a drink when you could come straight home and have a cup of hot tea??” Jeeez, Ma…
I just lost my last flip phone and decided, for the sake of my husband and my friends, that it was time to start texting. As we were sitting in the ATT store getting the new phone set up and I was fending off as much of the 21st century phone experience as I could, the manager stopped by to see how things were going. I got kidded about my 20th centuryness and was fine until the manager, roughly 35 years my junior, assured me that his mom had a similar phone and just LOVED being on youtube all day. All I could do was look at him and say “God save me!” The number of assumptions encompassed in that statement are many and varied, the worst of which is that the awful fate of a life of youtube is a good thing.
wiatr almost 5 years ago
And since so many have those annoying pocket phones, the phone companies have removed the pay phones leaving people like me no phone access at all.
J Short almost 5 years ago
in those bygone days, you had a great excuse for not, “getting back to you.”
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 5 years ago
And you can smash your car into things and win a Darwin Award.
unca jim almost 5 years ago
…..and after a 508 mile drive, an order for “a cold one” going by the bar on the way to the phone booth to call Mother to announce my arrival in one piece and the ever-repeated “WHY do you always stop for a drink when you could come straight home and have a cup of hot tea??” Jeeez, Ma…
BearsDown Premium Member almost 5 years ago
All mobile phones are “Pay Phones”
RonnieAThompson Premium Member almost 5 years ago
And you couldn’t rear end a car while talking on one.
PoodleGroomer almost 5 years ago
I never spent $75 a month in phone booths.
Perkycat almost 5 years ago
There is always an upside!
clayusmcret Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The AT&T service was definitely better back then. Now, ya can’t buy a bar off the interstate or outside a metro area.
ellisaana Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Now, you can’t use a cellphone as a port-a—-. Maybe that’s a good thing.
dogday Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I just lost my last flip phone and decided, for the sake of my husband and my friends, that it was time to start texting. As we were sitting in the ATT store getting the new phone set up and I was fending off as much of the 21st century phone experience as I could, the manager stopped by to see how things were going. I got kidded about my 20th centuryness and was fine until the manager, roughly 35 years my junior, assured me that his mom had a similar phone and just LOVED being on youtube all day. All I could do was look at him and say “God save me!” The number of assumptions encompassed in that statement are many and varied, the worst of which is that the awful fate of a life of youtube is a good thing.
rAtkinson almost 5 years ago
I had a boss that had a Bluetooth and would look at me while talking to somebody two miles away, drove me nuts.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 almost 5 years ago
Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.
Sneaker almost 5 years ago
I was at a big Optical complex and in the waiting room they had an old Telephone booth and a sign on it , For Cell Phone use only!!
ascha35-gocomics almost 5 years ago
So where does Superman go to change clothes now?