Sunday… THAT PHONE.. Number please?

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                                                                    Number Please?

BUT for now:

This generation, if they even thought about it, could not imagine NOT having a phone. I see toddlers with phones, they are probably not used as phones but could be. LOL

Early 1950s A year before my dad left Valdese, NC we went from our 4 digit phone # and an operator who always said, “Number Please” when you picked up your phone to a ‘rotary’ phone. You no longer heard an operator, you heard a steady buzz, which I learned, was a dial tone, meaning, “dial the dadgummed number please!!”

Oh,wow! When we moved to Belmont, we had a prefix! Our phone # was TAlmage5-2366 meaning to call us you dialed the T and the A then 5-2366.

When we had the rotary phone anything outside your four digit number area was long distance and you dialed the ‘0’ for operator assistance. When did that you were about to raise your phone bill because long distance cost extra even if it was just 10 miles.

Then even with the TA-5-2366 going outside your area, you still had to dial ‘0’ for long distance.

Then the biggie, 3 digit area codes.  We were assigned 704 and our phone # was now, 704 825 2366. It was amazing, if you had kin in Georgia and you knew their area code, you could call them without an operator.  BUT the bill still went up for long distance.

                    (that 'bag' or car phone)

I won’t even comment on the $$$ cost of a bag phone, I bought 2 for the company. Son Mark loved talking on the phone as he drove, until we got the phone bill LOL.

BUT NOW, WOW!  The new innovation? The Cell phone? It is no longer just a phone but a computer in your hand. I am NOT efficient AT ALL  in using one. Much due to my hearing and the other in my ignorance. i.e. someone can say ‘Will you look at this!’ then hand me the phone, I touch the wrong thing and what I was supposed to see is NOT there. OUCH>

I’m reminded of a song with the words ‘When will they ever learn?’ I change the word they to ‘I’?

WHEN WILL I EVER LEARN????

Nite Shipslog

PS. 

Thanks for stopping by the Shipslog.   I tried to call you all but the lines were busy…. So now I can test when I learn to type with my thumbs…..  ;-)