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In reply to the discussion: Kids react to "rotary phones": [View all]Diclotican
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I'm starting to be old - I do remember them, back in the days - I even remember when I was a small kid, we got a phone - mostly because I had severe asma - and was often in and out of the hospital - my dad was not always home, so sometimes they had to call for ambulance to get me to the hospital.... Back then, in the late 1970s, it was still some prioritizing to get a phone - doctors, police officers, elderly and sick people/parents of sick children was given priority over ordinary ones who just wanted a phone - it was not until 1986 that everyone could got a phone - without waiting for years... (Yeah I know - its back in the middle ages or somewhere there) I remember the rotary phone to be black, at least the first one -
later one it was a grey one - and then the first phone with knobs instead of a rotary... And now I am on my 5 or 6th cell phone - (I was rather late to get a cell phone) with all the trimmings and bangs a "smart phone" is known to have...
And I have 4 I'm uncle to - who is thinking I'm as old as the rock when I tell about the past - sometimes I do feel like an old rock.... Its rather depressing somtimes...
Diclotican