A question for the old fogies

[Alf]

Do you still remember your childhood telephone number?

I do.

[Niamh.]

yep and I remember my best friends phone number

[Alf]

yep and I remember my best friends phone numberI can remember my grandads, because we had to give him 3 rings to let him know we were in safely, every night.

[Crimson Dynamo]

414180 I think

looked like

https://www.antiquetelephones.co.uk/contents/media/p7261215.jpg

[Alf]

414180 I think

looked like

https://www.antiquetelephones.co.uk/contents/media/p7261215.jpgYou'd think the emergency number should have been 111 rather than 999, you'd have saved a few seconds dialing.

[Cherie]

Yes I do

[Beso]

Yes i do, funny thing is, my phone number in essex is exactly the same but with 2 reversed numbers.

[Cherie]

414180 I think

looked like

https://www.antiquetelephones.co.uk/contents/media/p7261215.jpg

Very Mrs Bucket

[Alf]

Very Mrs BucketIt's Bouquet!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do you remember when you went into the old red phoneboxes the heavy feel of the door and the smell of piss and fags on the inside?

:flutter:

[Cherie]

Do you remember when you went into the old red phoneboxes the heavy feel of the door and the smell of piss and fags on the inside?

:flutter:

talking to your boyfriend and your 10ps running out :flutter:

[Alf]

Do you remember when you went into the old red phoneboxes the heavy feel of the door and the smell of piss and fags on the inside?

:flutter:There's one accros the road from my house, although not red, we have White phone boxes. But it does stink of pi55, and it's now used as a hangout for the local alcoholics.

[rusticgal]

Well...I am no old fogie Alf...but as it happens I do. We had a chunky cream phone and my number was 204 2040...

[Niamh.]

Do you remember when you went into the old red phoneboxes the heavy feel of the door and the smell of piss and fags on the inside?

:flutter:

talking to your boyfriend and your 10ps running out :flutter:

For entertainment me and my best friend used to ring a phone box near us to see if anyone answered, many interesting conversations we had with strangers, a ringing phone must be answered (well that used to be true i don't think it applies anymore)

[Alf]

For entertainment me and my best friend used to ring a phone box near us to see if anyone answered, many interesting conversations we had with strangers, a ringing phone must be answered (well that used to be true i don't it applies anymore)We used to play the wallet game.

You got a wallet and filled it with paper so that it looked like it was bulging with cash, you then tied a fishing line to it and left it in the open for somebody to find, whilst you was hid. Then as they went to pick it up, you pulled it away from them and they go chasing after it.

[Niamh.]

We used to play the wallet game.

You got a wallet and filled it with paper so that it looked like it was bulging with cash, you then tied a fishing line to it and left it in the open for somebody to find, whilst you was hid. Then as they went to pick it up, you pulled it away from them and they go chasing after it.

:laugh2:

[thesheriff443]

My dad still has the same number

[Alf]

My dad still has the same numberI think my dad still might have one, although I only ever ring him on his mobile now.

[Toy Soldier]

I do because my dad answered the phone by saying the number rather than just saying hello :joker:. So I heard that number repeated over and over, every day for my whole childhood.

[Crimson Dynamo]

and the excitement of a "party line"

:amazed:

[bots]

I do because my dad answered the phone by saying the number rather than just saying hello :joker:. So I heard that number repeated over and over, every day for my whole childhood.

it was a thing, all my family answered with the number too. It stemmed from the time that the number "connected" wasn't reliably the one that you wanted :laugh:

[Toy Soldier]

Thinking about it, I actually remember the earlier one too. We moved when I was 10, I can clearly hear my dad “saying” both the age 0 - 10 number and the 10+ number.

And yet, I got my own landline at 13, but I don’t remember that number, even though it’s the one I was giving to people (no mobile until D: ).

[Beso]

I do because my dad answered the phone by saying the number rather than just saying hello :joker:. So I heard that number repeated over and over, every day for my whole childhood.

:joker:

Same, I even did it myself when I answered.

Hello 2238920.

I AM NOT A NUMBER.:fist:

[Beso]

The dreaded phone lock.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361830118626

[Beso]

For entertainment me and my best friend used to ring a phone box near us to see if anyone answered, many interesting conversations we had with strangers, a ringing phone must be answered (well that used to be true i don't think it applies anymore)

Answering it used to be the highlight of the week/month/year, depending on your luck

Nothing more exciting back then than walking past a phone box when it starts ringing.:dance:

[Niamh.]

The dreaded phone lock.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361830118626

My and my friend figured out a way to beat the phone lock, if you tapped the hang up buttons really quick for each number (so 4 quick taps for a number 4 then small pause and onto the next number) it dials it for you :hehe: tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

[Crimson Dynamo]

dial-a-disc

:flutter:

[Beso]

My and my friend figured out a way to beat the phone lock, if you tapped the hang up buttons really quick for each number (so 4 quick taps for a number 4 then small pause and onto the next number) it dials it for you :hehe: tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

I'd have got a clip round the lug by the time it took me to figure that out.:joker:

[Beso]

dial-a-disc

:flutter:

Omg..

Nice one..and obviously why the phone lock was invented.:joker:

[rusticgal]

My and my friend figured out a way to beat the phone lock, if you tapped the hang up buttons really quick for each number (so 4 quick taps for a number 4 then small pause and onto the next number) it dials it for you :hehe: tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked


I can see you were obviously a mischievous child Niamh...:laugh:

[AnnieK]

I do because my dad answered the phone by saying the number rather than just saying hello :joker:. So I heard that number repeated over and over, every day for my whole childhood.

My mum and dad did that too.

My dad still lives in the same house and so I still ring it every day. He answers with Hello now though.

[Alf]

Wasn't there a story time you could ring? Ring up and you'd get a story about Jack and the beanstalk or something like that.

[AnnieK]

For entertainment me and my best friend used to ring a phone box near us to see if anyone answered, many interesting conversations we had with strangers, a ringing phone must be answered (well that used to be true i don't think it applies anymore)

We used to hang around the shops so my mum got the number of the phone box there and used to ring it so someone would tell me to get my ass home :laugh:

We also used to ring the operator and say the phone ate our 10p and they would connect you for free

[Niamh.]

I'd have got a clip round the lug by the time it took me to figure that out.:joker:

tbf we only did it on my friends phone because her mom had put a lock on it, we didn't have one on ours, thinking back I feel really horrible now, her mother was a single parent, totally single parent (no support at all from her ex) and she was probably struggling money wise but you never think about stuff like that when you're a kid :(

I can see you were obviously a mischievous child Niamh...:laugh:

:eyes:

[Niamh.]

We used to hang around the shops so my mum got the number of the phone box there and used to ring it so someone would tell me to get my ass home :laugh:

We also used to ring the operator and say the phone ate our 10p and they would connect you for free

Oh clever :laugh:

[Beso]

Wasn't there a story time you could ring? Ring up and you'd get a story about Jack and the beanstalk or something like that.

Christ, yes..

Yes there bloody was.:cheer2:

[Beso]

tbf we only did it on my friends phone because her mom had put a lock on it, we didn't have one on ours, thinking back I feel really horrible now, her mother was a single parent, totally single parent (no support at all from her ex) and she was probably struggling money wise but you never think about stuff like that when you're a kid :(:eyes:


I never had one on mine either, but I would still have got a clip round the lug for messing about with the phone:hehe:

[Beso]

We used to phone people in Dallas, in the north of Scotland and ask if JR was in.(cause every phone box had a phone book inside back in the day)

And the operator to tell her to get off the line, cause a trains coming.


I never realised how much fun I've had in a phone box over the years really.

We used to bunch in as late teens, about five of us and pass a bottle of poppers around, that was funny as **** tbh.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElMwUpnWMAAyM_r.jpg

[rusticgal]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElMwUpnWMAAyM_r.jpg



:joker:


So funny....

[Crimson Dynamo]

We used to phone people in Dallas, in the north of Scotland and ask if JR was in.

And the operator to tell her to get of the line, cause a trains coming.


I never realised how much fun I've had in a phone box over the years really.

We used to bunch in as late teens, about five of us and pass a bottle of poppers around, that was funny as **** tbh.

I stayed for a week in that there Dallas when we were up for a golf holiday about 10 years ago

[Beso]

I stayed for a week in that there Dallas when we were up for a golf holiday about 10 years ago

Was JR in?

Or his brother JD

[bots]

My and my friend figured out a way to beat the phone lock, if you tapped the hang up buttons really quick for each number (so 4 quick taps for a number 4 then small pause and onto the next number) it dials it for you :hehe: tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

i did that and one time the operator came on the line and told me to stop doing it. Apparently, if numbers were called that way they didnt get charged :laugh:

[Beso]

i did that and one time the operator came on the line and told me to stop doing it. Apparently, if numbers were called that way they didnt get charged :laugh:

I wonder if you can still do that if you get a new, old, phone installed.

[Toy Soldier]

I wonder if you can still do that if you get a new, old, phone installed.


‘Twas called “pulse dialing”, phones used to be either pulse dial (with the dialing ring that you pulled round) or tone dial (buttons, boop boop boop). Pretty much all landline phones are tone dial these days but apparently you CAN still pulse dial on most lines.

[Beso]

‘Twas called “pulse dialing”, phones used to be either pulse dial (with the dialing ring that you pulled round) or tone dial (buttons, boop boop boop). Pretty much all landline phones are tone dial these days but apparently you CAN still pulse dial on most lines.

There's a loop hole their then.
:dance:

No boop boop boop for me.

[LaLaLand]

It’s the same as now so yes. :joker:

[Marsh.]

Thinking about it, I actually remember the earlier one too. We moved when I was 10, I can clearly hear my dad “saying” both the age 0 - 10 number and the 10+ number.

And yet, I got my own landline at 13, but I don’t remember that number, even though it’s the one I was giving to people (no mobile until D: ).

4291?

https://c.tenor.com/eJY0YB9mfo4AAAAd/one-foot-in-the-grave-victor-meldrew.gif

[smudgie]

Not a clue.:shrug:

[Josy]

Yes

[Crimson Dynamo]

4291?

https://c.tenor.com/eJY0YB9mfo4AAAAd/one-foot-in-the-grave-victor-meldrew.gif

:laugh2:

one of my faves

[MTVN]

Yeah I do, I remember the phone number of two of my friends as well because back in the day we'd phone up each others household landlines almost every day to arrange going over the park

[hijaxers]

and the excitement of a "party line"

:amazed:

Yes i remember my home phone number and there was totally no excitement being on a party line , we were on one with people who lived in next st for a while and it was a nightmare , I was always picking up phone and Mrs Richings was having a saga with her daughter ~ like for 2 hrs ! she was so inconsiderate.