Feelin' oooold.

[hipmamajen]

Tor is 22 months, and has become an all-terrain baby. Today he was standing on the table, and he found an outlet (of sorts) hiding behind a calendar on the wall.

Anya, my 18 year old, ran off to find the adults...and this is where I start feeling ancient.

She said, "Tor is trying to poker's finger into.....something....it looks like a USB port?!"

Can you guess what it actually was?
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It was a PHONE JACK! Apparently in today's cellular world, these are unrecognizable to the next generation. It may as well have been a spinning wheel, except I think she would know what that was. A 45rpm record, perhaps?

Life is changing fast for these young people.

 

[pegasus216]

I have one of those in my dining room. My grandson has never asked what it is yet.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I love my landline.

 

[king family fan]

I only have a landline ,no cell.

 

[fljoe0]

I love my landline.

I still have mine too. If I look hard enough, I might be able to find a dial phone too.

 

[AnnaMarie]

I love my landline.

Glad I'm not the only person that still has one. When we lost power for about three days, we were sure glad to have it. Our cell phones lost their charge, and would have a lot faster if they were in constant use.

 

[Bryan James]

 

[Spideyman]

Every room has a landline phone plug. and fljoe0 there is an old rotary out in my shed from MaBell. I'm so old my landline phone is connect with that spiral cord. No modern walk around the house and talk here!

 

[fushingfeef]

That's hilarious! We had a working 1957 rotary phone in our basement until about 7 years ago when we switched to all digital phone network. That thing weighed a ton! (that's not my phone number, by the way)

 

[hipmamajen]

Those rotary phones are selling like hotcakes on eBay. Especially the old heavy black ones that you were supposed to give back to the phone company when you moved. People are using them for art projects and as decor objects!

 

[AnnaMarie]

Every room has a landline phone plug. and fljoe0 there is an old rotary out in my shed from MaBell. I'm so old my landline phone is connect with that spiral cord. No modern walk around the house and talk here!

We have two plugged into the wall, but we also have cordless.

 

[fushingfeef]

When we originally toured our house that we ended up buying, they still had two working old-fashioned two-handed candlestick phones as well! Unfortunately they didn't come with the house.

 

[Bryan James]

Remember that one handset in the kitchen with the spiral cord that seemed to stretch through the whole house (and also get rid of the family vultures on holidays)?

These days you have to brandish arms.

 

[arista]

That's hilarious! We had a working 1957 rotary phone in our basement until about 7 years ago when we switched to all digital phone network. That thing weighed a ton! (that's not my phone number, by the way)

OH my I HAD THAT PHONE!! and a party line growing up.

 

[Spideyman]

OH my I HAD THAT PHONE!! and a party line growing up.

Part lines, oh yes I remember those.
Also phone numbers-- used to be two letter followed by a number : Lakeside 27. And long distance required an operator to assist you.

 

[fljoe0]

Remember that one handset in the kitchen with the spiral cord that seemed to stretch through the whole house (and also get rid of the family vultures on holidays)?

These days you have to brandish arms.

There was nothing like being a teenager and talking to a girl on the phone while you stood in the kitchen and your parents were sitting just a few feet away. That spiral cord couldn't stretch far enough.

 

[pegasus216]

I called one of my doctor's offices today to change my appointment. Of course, you never get a live person any more, but the automated voice said that if you have a rotary phone to please hang on until an operator could help. I thought, now who still has a rotary phone?
OMG!! I found one at Amazon! Pink too! $100.00!

 

[skimom2]

Haha! Love it! I watched Poltergeist with the kids (8-17) last year and had to explain the snow on the TV. They've not lived in a time when TV went off the air.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...just sayin'....

 

[blunthead]

When we originally toured our house that we ended up buying, they still had two working old-fashioned two-handed candlestick phones as well! Unfortunately they didn't come with the house.

I always thought those were cool. Maybe it's from watching Bogart using one while holding a smoldering cigarette between two fingers.

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