I was thinking today of how each generation see’ s and perceive things in their own way. I believe that changing technology is a big part of the reason. During my younger years telephones we such an amazing thing. The fact that you could call someone miles or countries away was just amazing. We also had a colored tv set. It had tubes that heated up and the tv worked. We had the television repair man in my house  constantly repairing it. The picture would always roll. My mom would always say boys leave the nice man alone. The poor guy could not fix it fast enough speed racer and Gilligan were on.

Families would have fights and discussions on how one person would hog the phone all the time lol.

And if we wanted another phone in the house we called the telephone company they came out with a phone, the colors were black, white, gold, avocado, and baby blue. It did not plug in, it required a Jack to be put in and extra long cords were big bucks. Lol

Our cord was stretched across the kitchen, through the hall and was jammed in the bathroom door frame so we could hatch plans with our friends on the QT. 🙂 it took us hours of whispering and we were ready to go but ahh oah it was too late mom and dad would not let us go out. Another long hot sweaty night watching Hawaii 5 O and potato chip eating.

The other nice part of 70’s technology was watching your parents unwinding the cords of the kitchen phone that we kids twisted into a knot as we walked around and around in circles while we yapped! , ABOUT NOTHING LOL. 🙂

 

We called our friends after we got my sister off the phone  The person we called often times had a busy signal. Meanwhile my siblings wanted the phone to use themselves. So, I remember frantically dialing my friends just to be able to say hi before I got elbowed by my brothers and the phone got taken away. Omg the memories.Lol

My mom would be in the kitchen cooking dinner for her wild tribe of kids and she would be stretching the phone cord off the wall mounted harvest gold colored phone. She would had the ten pound ear price wedged between her ear and shoulder as both hands managed the cooking and we the boy’s  would run through the kitchen skidding with our white socks on her beautifully waxed floor trying to kill each other and someone would always manage to hit the wire and my mother’s phone got pulled from the side of her head and flew across the room smashing on the floor.

It was so funny. My poor mom. The people on the phone heard huge bangs and screaming through the phone . God knows what they thought. LOL

Well, the years went quick, technology moved along and the phones now had 4 pronged jacks so they did not get hard wired all the time. I have a confession for my siblings! They are hearing this from me for  the first time SORRY.

When I was made to wait for the phone and you were talking on the phone enjoying life, I was outside in the hall pulling the wall  plug out to end your call. That’s right it was me ! I confess.  Lol.

Later on technology got better and they now had cordless phones , the range and clarity of the voice was not great but my siblings could now disappear with the phone and the good thing was I could still unplug the base to clear the line. I had a life too 🙂

 

So, to my siblings this song is for you. 🙂

For all the people that thought you hung up on them, it was me lol 🙂

E.L.O.  Telephone Line.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=EZB-DUCrhVQ

 

God Bless,

Danny