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Look at Your Phone! (Original Post) snooper2 May 2015 OP
Hilarious! cbayer May 2015 #1
I've got ye old landline, no mobile. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #2
Lol, you beat me! cbayer May 2015 #3
My parents, who are 30+ years older than me, both have mobiles. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #5
I don't have a firm base of operations, cbayer May 2015 #6
I have a flip-phone mobile in the car... Hepburn May 2015 #8
Ain't it the truth. Gidney N Cloyd May 2015 #4
When my son was about 10 yrs old and flipping thru the Malraiders May 2015 #7
LOL...like talking about "albums" for the "stereo." Hepburn May 2015 #9

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. Hilarious!
Mon May 18, 2015, 09:55 AM
May 2015

I have a phone that makes and receives phone calls. That is it.

My grandchildren are appalled.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. I've got ye old landline, no mobile.
Mon May 18, 2015, 09:58 AM
May 2015

TBH, I'd enjoy having a phone with a rotary dial again, not just a number pad

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
6. I don't have a firm base of operations,
Mon May 18, 2015, 10:10 AM
May 2015

so I have to have a mobile, but I wish I didn't.

I think you can get phones with actual dials that will work. Maybe a yard sale?

Hepburn

(21,054 posts)
8. I have a flip-phone mobile in the car...
Mon May 18, 2015, 12:18 PM
May 2015

...in case of an road emergency. I can call out...and people can call in. PERIOD. I am older and drive the freeways in the L. A. area.

BTW: Consumer Cellular is great -- for seniors. $10.00/month standard fee...calls are additional. The phone is sooooooo basic...it's just phone and that is all I want!

Malraiders

(444 posts)
7. When my son was about 10 yrs old and flipping thru the
Mon May 18, 2015, 12:04 PM
May 2015

TV channels with the remote, looking for a show that appealed to him, I said, "When I was your age televisions had thing called knobs on them and people would have to get up, walk to the TV and turn a knob to change the channel or adjust the volume."

He looked at me with a puzzled look and said, "No they didn't!!"

LOL

He just couldn't believe that tale.

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