“This is a collect call from ‘mompracticeisoverpickmeup’ do you accept the charges?”
payphone era texting
Those things were great. You could make a phone call from almost anywhere without having to carry around a radio tracking device all the time.
and time machine
Check in every few hours. Call collect with quick allgoodgoingtoJoes. Then parents decline the collect call.
Reminds me of the commercial, “bobhadababyitsaboy”
When I was a kid, this was my time machine, Dude.
Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.
good luck playing Minecraft on that
When I was a kid we didn’t need nor wanted “mobile phones”. What for? For parents always be able to shout “Go home!”?
Beepers were all the rage when I was in high school. Beeper goes off, look at the number and decide if you want to call it back. Different codes for different friends. Then scramble to find a payphone if you wanted to call someone back.
in my early childhood phones (not smart) where so common that i could ask strangers in the train: can i please call my mom?
And they gave it to me because i was a child“Your foster parents are dead.”
They made excellent toilets.
Truly some excellent adventures were had in those boxes.
Just dial down the middle! C-A-L-L-A-T-T
Straight up though the world peaked in the 2007-2010 in terms of culture. Everything has just gotten significantly worse since then and I feel bad for the zoomers and gen alpha who have to grow up in the 2020s
