tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post7284010130513231635..comments2024-03-28T06:20:48.661-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Phone memoriesJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-8181044155283186062018-10-02T04:40:47.478-04:002018-10-02T04:40:47.478-04:00I really missed those times, too. Now I almost nev...I really missed those times, too. Now I almost never touch my land lines, because almost all (maybe more than 90%) incoming calls are from telemarketers and scammers. That's very annoying. I never answer calls on my land lines anymore now. It's a waste of time. Almost everyday |I could also read people complaining about similar thing at sites like http://whycall.me and another similar websites. This sweet communication tool has been wrongly used by those criminals. Sad, but we should move on.Tony Quarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10606443049494524210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-1072190302565023912013-03-21T04:21:30.869-04:002013-03-21T04:21:30.869-04:00If I’m not in the mood I expect all calls and text...If I’m not in the mood I expect all calls and text that I receive will be negative. I practiced being optimistic and that helped me a lot. I just make it sure that I will not tolerate some things that need some action though.Poppy Schleinitzhttp://www.matchboard.com.au/MatchBoard/Forms/Article/WhatWeDo.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-71648655203606164392013-01-10T15:30:18.813-05:002013-01-10T15:30:18.813-05:00If you imagine the innovations when it comes to te...If you imagine the innovations when it comes to telecommunications, you will really be surprised at how far it has become. Nowadays, there are <a href="http://www.nexxphase.com/interactive-voice-response.html" rel="nofollow">interactive voice response software</a> that many companies are using.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623605649900979691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-75888175822171121062011-11-24T21:13:10.271-05:002011-11-24T21:13:10.271-05:00Surely call services have gone a long way.Surely call services have gone a long way.call recordinghttp://www.retellrecorders.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-76916186447666768792011-04-25T23:26:19.155-04:002011-04-25T23:26:19.155-04:00I can see I really, really need to catch up on my ...I can see I really, really need to catch up on my classic movies . . . thanks for such fun comments, everyone!Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519514786198185277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66387473475653012122011-04-25T16:55:44.531-04:002011-04-25T16:55:44.531-04:00I remember when our home exchange was Kenwood and ...I remember when our home exchange was Kenwood and the number was KE 6-5636. Today, two of my kids don't have land lines, and the other two don't answer them:-) <br />When I was married to a surgeon, the phone in the middle of the night always meant bad news, and I used to find myself huddled under the covers at the foot of the bed. Hmmm-wonder if that's part of why I'm not married to him anymore.judyalterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767466505891813090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-31752757479191245922011-04-25T16:20:04.775-04:002011-04-25T16:20:04.775-04:00Hilltop 59757 and I called my cousin Carla so many...Hilltop 59757 and I called my cousin Carla so many times back then I still remember hers: FRanklin 43249.<br /><br />The coolest thing EVER to hit our household when I was a teen was my extension so I could talk to boyfriend Freddie from the privacy of my room. Oh God, how I would stare at that phone, wishing it to ring. Checking to see if it worked. Rushing off calls if they weren't from HIM. <br /><br />I cancelled my second landline last year but still prefer talking on the one that's left. Much clearer. And, thanks to conferences, I learned to be a seasoned text-er. And love it.<br /><br />Okay, here's what I hate: the not-so-close friend who decides to catch me up on her life on her cell phone while she's driving through the mountains. And blocks her number. <br /><br />For movies - what about Joan Crawford "I Saw What You Did"? The two teens who unknowingly crank call a murderer with "I saw what you did and I know who you are." Creepy.Rochelle Staabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700362801884548978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-52907196703951478882011-04-25T14:44:05.680-04:002011-04-25T14:44:05.680-04:00All the stories about parental guidance vis a vis ...All the stories about parental guidance vis a vis phone use makes me worry for kids these days, who have zero such oversight. Parents have no idea whatsoever what their kids are up to on their cell phones. I know there are ways to block kids' phones so they can only use them for certain things, but how many parents are going to wrest their kids' phones away from them long enough to manage such controls? I know my brother does not do that with his sons' phones, and because of the divorce the kids spend a LOT of time on their own. <br /><br />And we thought we had trouble keeping tabs on our daughters' Internet use. Oy. <br /><br />Hallie, the tulips are blooming now, and the trees are almost in full leaf. And the Miami River, which I said almost never floods? Almost overflowed its banks this past week, we've had so much rain in the last couple weeks.Karen in Ohionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-41224331592120828842011-04-25T14:07:31.396-04:002011-04-25T14:07:31.396-04:00Rosemary, I missed that movie. Gonna get it now on...Rosemary, I missed that movie. Gonna get it now on Netflix. I'm a big Barbara Stanwyck fan.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-81140252057428553762011-04-25T14:01:06.536-04:002011-04-25T14:01:06.536-04:00Hey, Karen! The pleasure was all mine. Spring was ...Hey, Karen! The pleasure was all mine. Spring was in full swing in Ohio - now it finally is here in the Boston area, too.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-77892068809806255382011-04-25T13:59:54.904-04:002011-04-25T13:59:54.904-04:00Oh, Rebecca - love to be reminded of Arsenic and O...Oh, Rebecca - love to be reminded of Arsenic and Old Lace, and the Brewsters ("Insanity runs in our family. It practically gallops.")<br /><br />Phone call Mortimer (Cary Grant) Brewster makes:<br />"Hello... Operator? Can you hear my voice? You can? Are you sure? [Hangs up] Well, then I must be here."Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-80195161731165696852011-04-25T13:47:38.079-04:002011-04-25T13:47:38.079-04:00We still have a landline, because I've lived i...We still have a landline, because I've lived in too many places with lousy cell reception to feel good without one. I generally make calls on it when I'm home, and prefer to receive them there, too. Since my son is not even two, he's not aware of cell phones yet, thank god. The way that teenagers sit next to each other, texting, without even talking to each other in person is a bit scary to me. My generation was lucky to have pagers in high school, although that often suggested you dealt pot, too. :p Those were the early days of internet chat rooms, all on dial-up modem, of course.<br /><br />I suppose I'm probably young enough that I still crack up at seeing the big clunky portable landline phones in 1990s movies, because my dad had one that he lived off of during that same era. In the mid-80s, when I was a child living in Colorado, I found the wall-mounted kitchen telephone fascinating to play with. It had a long curly plastic cord, and it kept stretching each year, because my dad used to pace when he'd get on the phone. He'd pass through the dining room and into the living room, back and forth, stretching that cord to within an inch of its life. We used to wait for him to pull the cord out of the receiver, but it never happened. Around the time we moved out of that house, that cord was so long it rested on the floor.<br /><br />A classic movie that resonated with me in childhood wasn't telephone-centric, but it was more the quality of Cary Grant's acting on the telephone that makes it powerful to me. Anyone remember "Arsenic and old lace," the Frank Capra film from the mid-40s? Some of the best scenes are Mortimer (played by Grant) on the phone with various people--his moods kept changing over the course of the film (having aunts who are angel of mercy killers can do that to a person) and impacted each call he made or received. Gotta love the calls to Happydale sanitarium to place his aunts and his lunatic brother (Teddy Roosevelt) and thus prevent them from murdering any more sad, lonely men--"Everybody's happy at Happydale." :p One of my all-time favorites, that movie, even though I haven't seen it in years.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13127537942890921580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-20910626749394790772011-04-25T12:40:59.405-04:002011-04-25T12:40:59.405-04:00If my husband would stop turning off his cell phon...If my husband would stop turning off his cell phone I'd get rid of our landline altogether. But he is still one of those people with phone phobia. Maybe sometime in the next year, now that we have two mobile hotspots from Verizon for our Internet. <br /><br />We also just realized recently how few faxes he gets for business, fewer than one a month. <br /><br />If you don't like getting robocalls, etc, some phone companies offer a service whereby you input your "preferred" numbers (parents, kids, friends, neighbors), and everyone else has to input their phone number before the call can ring through to your line. Robocallers, and cold callers who sit in front of computer phone banks with headsets, can't get through. It's genius. Sometimes this is a "premium" service, as it is from Cincinnati Bell, but it's worth it. <br /><br />Hi, Hallie! Hope the rest of your trip after you left Hamilton was fabulous. It was great to meet you!Karen in Ohionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-65067373934675305562011-04-25T12:14:25.784-04:002011-04-25T12:14:25.784-04:00Party lines..how about Sorry Wrong Number with Bar...Party lines..how about Sorry Wrong Number with Barbara Stanwyck overhearing plans for her own murder?<br />"He's coming up the stairs!!"<br />Anyone remember who the killer was?Rosemary Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033747422699443024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-37332944048431867752011-04-25T11:35:42.176-04:002011-04-25T11:35:42.176-04:00I'm with Roberta: the most unfortunate side ef...I'm with Roberta: the most unfortunate side effect is that I never talk with my in-laws anymore (my husband probably thinks that's pretty fortunate). <br /><br />I didn't experience the named exchanges, but I remember before we needed area codes and "1+" before dialing everywhere. And when it cost more to call San Francisco to the East Bay than East Bay to SF.Tammy Kaehlerhttp://www.tammykaehler.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-41620030684635178912011-04-25T10:40:23.385-04:002011-04-25T10:40:23.385-04:00I jump every time my cell phone rings--or chirps o...I jump every time my cell phone rings--or chirps or buzzes or whatever (oh, I'm supposed to tell it what to do?). I still haven't gotten used to the fact that a female voice announces very loudly "call from Jane Doe." Then rings. Then beeps. Ack.<br /><br />I still have the first Trimline phone we had (once Ma Bell stopped leasing them to you forever, for a hefty fee). It weighs about five pounds.<br /><br />And to really date myself, when I first learned to use a phone, in the Philadelphia suburbs, you had to talk to a live operator and tell her what number you wanted. I always got flustered and ended up giving her my own.Sheila Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165644581595919711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-38050403429284468992011-04-25T10:25:33.372-04:002011-04-25T10:25:33.372-04:00We still have a landline; in fact, although we hav...We still have a landline; in fact, although we have cell phones, they're pay-as-you-go and we only use them when we travel. We let our daughters take them if they're going to be out and about (NOT to school). The caller ID shows up on our TV screen if we're watching it, so we don't have to fight about who'll answer the phone. If it's unidentified, or a charity or political call, we don't answer it. Otherwise, the person it's for gets up.<br />PS: I'm supposed to be proofing the typeset copy of DIE BUYING, but my eyes are crossing so I'm doing this instead. :-)Laura DiSilverionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-87992999963776379832011-04-25T10:24:38.241-04:002011-04-25T10:24:38.241-04:00In the California quake and 9/11, I seem to recall...In the California quake and 9/11, I seem to recall tat cell phones that worked and land lines didn't.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-50980649953473413492011-04-25T10:22:30.864-04:002011-04-25T10:22:30.864-04:00Edith, Kaye - we had a party line too - on our &qu...Edith, Kaye - we had a party line too - on our "teen" (we stand corrected) line. And extensions all over the house for the regular phone. I can remember my sister's breathing, the tip-off that she was listening in. Then the click (no more clicks!) when she hung up.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-39591993080990972872011-04-25T10:20:35.809-04:002011-04-25T10:20:35.809-04:00Rhonda, that clip is hiarious!
Brenda: OOOH, Dial...Rhonda, that clip is hiarious!<br /><br />Brenda: OOOH, Dial M - Grace Kelley husband calls, she picks up the phone, the man he's hired to kill her is hiding behind the drapes...Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-61293050849926618012011-04-25T10:11:58.281-04:002011-04-25T10:11:58.281-04:00Oh I forgot.
Chestnut 5-0311 was Nana's pho...Oh I forgot. <br /><br />Chestnut 5-0311 was Nana's phone. We lived in Mercury 4 something. Isn't it fuuny I can remember Nana's phone number but not ours. Guess I called her more than I called myself. lolPat Marinellinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-75119461102618520112011-04-25T10:09:15.654-04:002011-04-25T10:09:15.654-04:00Sorry to tell you all but it was never "a chi...Sorry to tell you all but it was never "a children's phone," it's a "Teen phone with a teen line." Yes, my sister and I got one when she went to work for "Ma Bell" and she got an employee discount. And yes, Hank, we too had a pink Princess phone. Wish I still had it to hold between my chin and shoulder...so comfortable.<br /><br />Hubby and I both have cell phones, as do all our kids, but we still keep the landline for emergencies and when they power goes out. I have heard that 911 is easier now because your cell can be tracked between cell towers and your location pin pointed. This is all very new and it may depend on where you are at the time or where you live.<br /><br />I am on the DO NOT CALL list and I sure wish it applied to charities and polical parties. I asked Hubby if we could change our voting status to the party who will never all you? He just laughed. I dread election time with all its annoying phone calls. You can't even tell the caller off because they're all recorded.Pat Marinellinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-86331658589288220542011-04-25T10:08:22.480-04:002011-04-25T10:08:22.480-04:00ACademy 8 - 5387. Before the rotary dial phone, o...ACademy 8 - 5387. Before the rotary dial phone, our number was 1394-R and it was a party line.<br /><br />The party line may have been the thing that made me learn to hate the telephone, and it's only gotten worse.<br /><br />The woman on our party line would screech at any of us who picked up the phone while she was having a conversation, then come knock on our door to screech some more in person. We all got to where we were scared to death to even pick the thing up! LOL!<br /><br />Donald has recently been doing some hiking on Grandfather Mountain and we decided he should take the cell phone with him. First we had to find it. Then we had to find the charger. Then guess what I found on there? Some message left while I was in Baltimore at Bouchercon. oy.<br /><br />I'm an email person.Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Museshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07486129009717476920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-42753115939984604182011-04-25T09:51:23.806-04:002011-04-25T09:51:23.806-04:00@Edith funny about the timer.
Hi Jules..long time...@Edith funny about the timer.<br /><br />Hi Jules..long time no see!<br />We've still got a landline in CT because we're in a dead zone and the cells don't work here (needless to say, I don't mind)The power goes out a few times year because of storms and the only phone that still works when it does is the 30 yr old rotary desktop model that I've had forever.Rosemary Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033747422699443024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-34597669618862641522011-04-25T09:33:07.818-04:002011-04-25T09:33:07.818-04:00While I, my husband and kids all have cell phones....While I, my husband and kids all have cell phones....we also have land lines in the house because if there's a huge local emergency (like when the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis)the cell circuits overload and no one can make calls. We even still have one analog land line phone that plugs into the wall because that one will still work even if the power goes out. That one has a rotary dial that the kids don't know how to use.Julie Kramerhttp://www.juliekramerbooks.comnoreply@blogger.com