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Our public phone booths (in Australia) had an 'A' button (so you could press it to Answer {speak to} the person you dialed up) or a 'B' button to press, if no one picked up at the other end, so you could get your money back and not have it taken by the phone mechanism.Kirisin said:these are the phones we had and we always had a dime to call home
ShippoFox said:Sometimes I wish I were from the future, but that could be worse, I don't know what the world will be like, so I don't know.
OMG I love the way Chris Rock described those old dial phones on lethal weapon 4...Kirisin said:these are the phones we had and we always had a dime to call home
You will live more than 20 years!Edgewater said:No, I am really old and have lived a full and happy life. Add 20 more years to my projected life and no, not without a whole bunch of qualifiers!
Thank you for your kind comment, but that would place me at 115 years old, which is 20 years beyond my personal goal. I understand the rapid advancement of medical science and the new drugs coming. But, I am currently older than near all my male family members. Statics are a cold reality as is genetics. It is not an issue of psychology, but medical reality.Jorelaxed said:You will live more than 20 years!
Well I think it is delight you are here with us. You have seen a lot of things change in your life for sure. I have the up most respect for your generation. You guys new hard work and the value of a dollar. My health like it is I some times wonder if I even have 10 years left. If I made it to 95 It would be a miracle. If my math is right that puts you born around 1928. Man I am kind of Jealous of all the cars you have seen and driven. I guess you was a few years to young to be able to serve in WW2 but I bet you was old enough to remember those days. You have lived a good full life and you have seen the world change in so many ways from indoor plumbing to tv to color tv to the home phone all the way up to today.Edgewater said:Thank you for your kind comment, but that would place me at 115 years old, which is 20 years beyond my personal goal. I understand the rapid advancement of medical science and the new drugs coming. But, I am currently older than near all my male family members. Statics are a cold reality as is genetics. It is not an issue of psychology, but medical reality.
I remember how to use the first rotary phone on the left and touch tone dime and quarter public phone on the right, good memories.Kirisin said:these are the phones we had and we always had a dime to call home
Even in the 90's 20% of the pick ups in the school parking had rifles or shot guns hanging in the back glass. I mean the student parking as well as the staff. Every boy had a pocket knife from about 6th grade on. No one cared and it was not a problem. The world has just went mad. I do not feel safe going any place with out a pistol and 30 rounds of ammo on me. I carry it to the hospital to church my bank post office where ever. You just never know when a mad man (or child) is going to pull out a gun and start shooting now a days.foxkits said:I was born in the early 60s it was not so unsafe to be a kid I can't think of anyone wanting to harm a child.
We were watched by everyone.
My mom had a police wissle we had to be in ear shot of it. That is how she called us home. I'm very happy being born at that time.
What a sad comment on modern life. How has it come to this? We in the UK have never had the same gun culture that you had in the USA, for which I am very grateful. Not that there are places here that are not dangerous, every city has it’s dark corners but to read about the mass shootings that the USA has nearly every day is terrifying.Diaperman95 said:Even in the 90's 20% of the pick ups in the school parking had rifles or shot guns hanging in the back glass. I mean the student parking as well as the staff. Every boy had a pocket knife from about 6th grade on. No one cared and it was not a problem. The world has just went mad. I do not feel safe going any place with out a pistol and 30 rounds of ammo on me. I carry it to the hospital to church my bank post office where ever. You just never know when a mad man (or child) is going to pull out a gun and start shooting now a days.
It was just as dangerous, if not more so, to be a child before abuse started to be taken seriously.foxkits said:I was born in the early 60s it was not so unsafe to be a kid I can't think of anyone wanting to harm a child.
We were watched by everyone.
My mom had a police wissle we had to be in ear shot of it. That is how she called us home. I'm very happy being born at that time.
Sorry fully disagree as it was not just as dangerous it was far less dangerous!Anemone said:It was just as dangerous, if not more so, to be a child before abuse started to be taken seriously.
Ignorance may be bliss but it is a terrible defence.
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