[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by parmnion

The dreaded phone lock.

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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 tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

[Christmas Dynasnow]

dial-a-disc

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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 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.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

dial-a-disc

Omg..

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

[Rustic bauble]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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 tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

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

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I do because my dad answered the phone by saying the number rather than just saying hello . 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.

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

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

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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

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

Originally Posted by rusticgal

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

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

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

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

Oh clever

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by 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.

Christ, yes..

Yes there bloody was.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

[Parmy]

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.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

[Rustic bauble]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

So funny....

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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 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

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

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

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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

‘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.


No boop boop boop for me.

[FaLaLaLand]

It’s the same as now so yes.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by 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 ).

4291?

[smudgie]

Not a clue.

[Josy]

Yes