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Post by mojogirl on Feb 8, 2019 16:20:52 GMT -4
Classic slumber party activity was to crank call boys from your class.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 21:01:35 GMT -4
If I wanted a new book, I either went to the library (and that got old after I read all their kid/young adult books) or waited until my mom needed to go to the city an hour away from our rural town and hit up either B. Dalton Booksellers (my preferred book store) or Waldenbooks (which was meh).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 21:27:22 GMT -4
This! My US TV watching in the 80s wasn't a lie...I was right, you all had phones stretched the cord straight, drove around in Kelly Taylor’s red bmw and lived in Ferris Buellers/Kevin’s Home Alone houses! One out of three! There is an old picture of me lying down in the hallway outside my room (I don't know why) talking on my phone with the cord stretched as far as it could go.But my first car was an old sky blue Buick beater, lol. And the 3 BR house with five people, a dog, and two cats was pretty crowded! ;-) We did have a very cool Atari gaming system, though. Space Invaders was my jam. I kid you not I didn't get to stretch the hell out my own phone until the early '90s when I had my own place with own landline with my own twisty cord to stretch, I knew then I was most certainly hot shit! :-) |
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Post by ratscabies on Feb 9, 2019 1:12:00 GMT -4
Ha! I STILL have my pushbutton wall phone with the 20' cable all stretched and twisted. I even answered it last week!
I am still hot shit!
Also? I am still hoping to figure out how to hook up my Atari 5200 to an HDMI tv....
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Post by mojogirl on Feb 9, 2019 3:00:43 GMT -4
I was so sad when we had to give up the landline, but it's expensive and we all have cells. ratscabies my son brought back the vintage Atari 2600 from my parents' house last summer and has it hooked up in our basement. |
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Post by Ripley on Feb 9, 2019 19:04:09 GMT -4
“What’s playing at the movies?” To answer that, we had to look in a newspaper or, if you were lucky, you could call the theater and it would have a voice mail message listing all the movies and showtimes. It wouldn’t take as long to listen as you might think since most theaters only had 3 to 6 screens.
“Is that movie any good?” Well, hopefully the local newspaper’s movie critic wrote about it. If the critic is good you can trust his (it was always a man) judgment. If he wasn’t good, you either asked your friends or you took your chances.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 20:39:36 GMT -4
We used to be able to prank call people ... and they didn't know who it was! The phone used to ring and we didn't know who was going to be on the other end when we picked it up ... and we liked it! My best friend and her husband still have the same black rotary phone they've had for their 20-year-plus marriage, in the kitchen. Everyone in the family has cell phones, but that thing is their home number, lol. |
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Post by ratscabies on Feb 10, 2019 12:34:30 GMT -4
We used to be able to prank call people ... and they didn't know who it was! The phone used to ring and we didn't know who was going to be on the other end when we picked it up ... and we liked it! My best friend and her husband still have the same black rotary phone they've had for their 20-year-plus marriage, in the kitchen. Everyone in the family has cell phones, but that thing is their home number, lol. Because that's what grownups do! We have home phones in our own names, so we can qualify for financing on that new Marshall stack at Guitar Center! Oops....umm....I gotta go clean the gutters or something.... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 13:17:54 GMT -4
I actually still have a landline, mainly because cell phone reception in my building is awful. I get one bar most of the time. Two if I’m lucky.
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Post by prisma on Feb 10, 2019 19:50:22 GMT -4
I *LOVED* prank calling people when I had sleepovers with friends. Kids these days don't know what they're missing out on. Caller ID ruined everything.
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