Eh, in fairness, I remember the phone ringing and my dad just being like, “Don’t answer it,” because telemarketers were definitely a thing in the '90s.
That’s why answering machings had speakers on them. It was a great way to screen calls. If someone you wanted to talk to was on the line you just picked up.
Lol yeah and my mum being like if someone knocks/rings when we’re out just say “my mum is in the shower but she will be RIGHT back”. I think to stop us getting kidnapped 😂 then people wonder why we’ve grown up to avoid people knocking on our doors 😂
Nowadays, if the phone rings or if someone knocks on the door, it causes fear and anxiety.
When I was a kid, if the house phone rang or there was a knock at the door, we’d rush to answer in excitement. “the cousins are coming over.”
simpler times
Eh, in fairness, I remember the phone ringing and my dad just being like, “Don’t answer it,” because telemarketers were definitely a thing in the '90s.
That’s why answering machings had speakers on them. It was a great way to screen calls. If someone you wanted to talk to was on the line you just picked up.
Lol yeah and my mum being like if someone knocks/rings when we’re out just say “my mum is in the shower but she will be RIGHT back”. I think to stop us getting kidnapped 😂 then people wonder why we’ve grown up to avoid people knocking on our doors 😂
It really is just how reality intrudes on any safe calm space we have.
Meh, that changed for me when I got my own place, long before the internet.
Even then most calls were spam, which is why filtering via answering machine became a thing.
And friends didn’t visit unannounced.
And how the phone rang during a thunderstorm
That’s not times, that’s you being a kid.
That’s most things in this post