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Reminiscing....come take a stroll down memory lane!
Shasta542:
--- Quote from: injest on July 30, 2007, 06:56:51 pm ---Do you remember that you could (if you had a telephone) pick up the reciever...dial your own number (on a rotary dial!) and hang up real fast ....and your own phone would ring! LOL!
I got a whupping one time for doing that....
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We lived out in the country where 2 or 3 families shared a "party line" and when you picked up your phone, you could hear other people talking. When the phone rang, you had to listen to the rings to see whether it was yours or someone else's. Ours was 1 long and 2 shorts or something like that. By the time I got to be 11 or 12, the country had private lines. YAY.
injest:
I was in the sixth grade before we got our first phone but it was a private line!! :laugh:
injest:
the rumble seat of the station wagon...and no seat belts...you could waller all over the place.
do kids today get the 'stop short' arm anymore? I am 42 and my mother still will throw her arm out in front of me if we have to stop suddenly....see? we DID have safety devices...who needs a seat belt or air bags if you got your momma's arm??
Shasta542:
It's a wonder we lived past childhood, Jess! No seat belts ever--our cars didn't even have them for a long time. I rode in the back of a pick up--sometimes sitting on the tailgate. And I rode my bike all over the place and played alone in a wooded area about a half mile from home---climbing trees and walking around--probably near snakes. If something would have happened--no one would've known until it was time for me to come home. I wasn't scared a bit then---now it seems scary. We didn't let my little niece out of our sight---course it's a vastly different world now. We made it tho, didn't we?
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on July 30, 2007, 06:56:10 pm ---Truman and I were talking about these a couple of days ago...
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Ugh! :P
Do people really eat those things? I thought they just hung them there to encourage people to buy the more expensive stuff.
I tried one once and I couldn't get it down. Clarissa, please tell me you really don't eat those! :P
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