Living without a mobile phone

[jessicadazzler97]

Into my fourth month of living without a mobile phone. Could you? Would you? Do you? Let me know down below!

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

richo, was that back in the day when the car had peddles on the floor and the phone was the size and weight of a brick??

lol

Love those seeing those 'old' movies and the actors almost hoist the phone to their ears! always pmsl

[serendipityricho]

-The early days Youcan--when the first car ones came out in Australia--couldnt afford one.

Had an old Telecom-phone with the round dial-sitting on the dash of my van.

At the traffic lights-would lift up the handpiece from the top and make out i was using it.lol...............Richo.

[zanadoo_56]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

-The early days Youcan--when the first car ones came out in Australia--couldnt afford one.

Had an old Telecom-phone with the round dial-sitting on the dash of my van.

At the traffic lights-would lift up the handpiece from the top and make out i was using it.lol...............Richo.

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Hubby and I had rather hefty gadgets in our cars for communication...and with round dials too....lots of them.  And long aerials that you had to remove when you weren't in your car otherwise they'd get stolen.

Ahh, the golden age of CB radios. 

[zanadoo_56]

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@lloydslights wrote:

What's a flat-screen TV?>>>>>>>>>>>dashes off to put a 78  on the gramophone.

DEB

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Does your gramophone have a Garrard turntable?

I'm envious!  I've got ten 78s I can't play. 

Actually I hope to eventually get a new record player that includes 78rpm speed possibly sometime in the new year.

Modern day challenge: Try explaining what a 78 record is to a young person who has not only never heard of them, but has never seen any vinyl records either.  (So....how long will it be before CDs are a complete mystery?)

What's a flat screen TV indeed.  My TV has a flat screen.....just the screen mind you.  The rest of the TV has a cumbersome angled funny shape attached behind it.  Must be becoming as rare as hen's teeth now because I've had visitors stop dead in their tracks and stare at it in wonder.  I don't see the need to replace it.  I've got a PVR so I can watch the new fangled channels and I prefer the original aspect ratio for my old TV series DVDs.  Also, it's pretty safe....it may be freestanding but you can't accidentally pull it over someone...unless you are Superman.

[imastawka]

Hello CQ  Hello CQ  What's ya 10.4  Comeback

[zanadoo_56]

My 10.4?  Hmm.  Message (mostly) understood.

10.20 - my lounge, in front of the TV.

Back in the day I spent a lot of time learning the codes, including some of the Q ones (amateur radio) but I've forgotten most of them now.  Still remember all the alphabet words though.  Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel.....and so it goes on.  Funny what the brain remembers.

[imastawka]

Yeah, I think I've forgotten most of what I learnt too.

But it was easy to spot a fellow CBer with those whip aerials flailing around

It was a lot of fun though

[zanadoo_56]

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@imastawka wrote:

Yeah, I think I've forgotten most of what I learnt too.

But it was easy to spot a fellow CBer with those whip aerials flailing around

It was a lot of fun though

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Wasn't it just!

I had a sky blue aerial.....to match my car.  As you do.....

[serendipityricho]

Had a CB-with a loudspeaker mounted at the front of my van.

Very handy in road rage situations-trumped the .finger every time.............Richo.

[serendipityricho]

A loud--cowabunga dudes -or..eat my socks  approaching a rural schoolbus shelter

always got a good reaction.

The steam train noises played on a tape through small country towns

late at night or early in the morning-didnt......................................Richo.