anyone else used to have a dedicated telephone seat/ table thing in the hall?
Ours wan’t quite as “fancy” as this one, but you get the idea
I always just say “hello?” on the phone it’s probably the area of my life I’m the least creative with
When I was a kid everyone in our family used to answer the phone with full area code and phone number. I can still remember the intonation my dad used to say it.
I do with my personal but at work I am a ‘Hello, Tristram speaking’.
I’ve started saying ‘hello you’re through to aggpass’ phone, Aggpass speaking’
“Hello, [Surname] Summer Home, some are home and some aren’t hahahaha”
My parents still have it
Remember a shop in Luton that got confused and added the 1 at the end of the area code, not after the 0. Uh oh!
we also had a book with phone numbers in like this on the table - you slid the slider to the letter you wanted to look up
That looks familiar, don’t know if we have one around when I was a kid or not though.
this seems kind of ingenious, how did it work?
yes they did and so did I.
I also remember the two digit area codes
My da still does this. He would yell at me and my sister if we didn’t
the pages kind of had “steps” on them, or were different widths or something
I do know that if 7 year old Tim fucked around with it it stopped working properly
My dad still does this. Sometimes when I call and he answers I repeat the number as well at the same time and we have a right old laugh.
Still just reminds me of this though. 4291
Oh. We didn’t have a phone so I wouldn’t know.
My Dad says ‘(Town name) (Tel no.)’
My work tel no. end 010 the number to dial to get into tale conferences is the same no except 001, get about 10 wrong numbers, at least, a week.
I still get irked at people who believe that 0207 and 0208 are area codes.
