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Skizzity wrote:On a rotary phone.....getting to the last digit and misdialing! Argh...LOL We don't even have to remember phone numbers anymore. Although, I do have my home, cell, and wife's cell memorized.

I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

ChrisNeilan wrote:

Skizzity wrote:On a rotary phone.....getting to the last digit and misdialing! Argh...LOL We don't even have to remember phone numbers anymore. Although, I do have my home, cell, and wife's cell memorized.

I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

You didn't hijack anything. This thread has not been about shipping issues from the very beginning. It has been more about what Shopsmith has available to ship (advertising and manufacturing issues).

ChrisNeilan wrote:

Skizzity wrote:On a rotary phone.....getting to the last digit and misdialing! Argh...LOL We don't even have to remember phone numbers anymore. Although, I do have my home, cell, and wife's cell memorized.

I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

I haven't had a home phone in 7 or 8 years but I still have the rotary phone that I kept back then for the very reason you stated.

jsburger wrote:

ChrisNeilan wrote:

Skizzity wrote:On a rotary phone.....getting to the last digit and misdialing! Argh...LOL We don't even have to remember phone numbers anymore. Although, I do have my home, cell, and wife's cell memorized.

I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

I haven't had a home phone in 7 or 8 years but I still have the rotary phone that I kept back then for the very reason you stated.

John, but do just have it, or is hooked up and active??
I hate phones, at home my # is unlisted and unpublished, except for family and Drs only have the #. No BS calls. At moms she wins 5M and a New Mercedes 2-3 times a week, just need to send 1500$ for paper work and delivery charges. Plus many others and the political Robo and survey calls.
Drives me nuts, but I just hand it over to mom, she has nothing to do, she drives them nuts with a thousand questions!!!!!!!!!!!!! She figures if they are talking to her, there not calling someone else. God bless her.

ERLover wrote:

jsburger wrote:

ChrisNeilan wrote:

I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

I haven't had a home phone in 7 or 8 years but I still have the rotary phone that I kept back then for the very reason you stated.

John, but do just have it, or is hooked up and active??
I hate phones, at home my # is unlisted and unpublished, except for family and Drs only have the #. No BS calls. At moms she wins 5M and a New Mercedes 2-3 times a week, just need to send 1500$ for paper work and delivery charges. Plus many others and the political Robo and survey calls.
Drives me nuts, but I just hand it over to mom, she has nothing to do, she drives them nuts with a thousand questions!!!!!!!!!!!!! She figures if they are talking to her, there not calling someone else. God bless her.

No it is not hooked up. I don't have a land line in the house. Back when I had a land line I kept the phone so when the power went out I could plug it in and report the outage or what ever I needed to do while the power was out. Yes I still have it but no line to plug it into.

Have you put your moms phone on the government "Do Not Call List"? That seemed to work very well when I had a land line and you can report repeat callers that violate it.

Ya I have her on the no call list, BUT political calls, calls done by office personnel of a solicitor, not a tella marketer for them, religious orgs, political orgs, are exempt from the no call list, and the you won 5M$ and the Mercedes are originated over seas via a something, that shows up as a local area code and #. Nothing you can do about those, untouchable.

John, basically the no call list just blocks tella marketer firms hired by a sales company.

ERLover wrote:John, basically the no call list just blocks tella marketer firms hired by a sales company.

The list is 'supposed' to apply to any entity that does not have a previous 'relationship' with the 'target'. Yes there are exemptions(electioneering GRRRRR!!!).

The out is that they are supposed to remove thee from their 'list' when requested.

The Nigerians and the 'Indians' (and others) just plain ignore the list.

ChrisNeilan wrote:I still keep a rotary phone in the bedroom and at work. They don't require an outside power source and always work in a power outage. Plus they have the best sound. Alas, we're hijacking this thread. I apologize!

OK, my older brother (Sterling here) has a rotary dial phone, in the living room.

One of my youngest brother's kids asked "what is that," Sterling said it a "telephone."

"How does it work?" Sterling shows the kid. "Now, DIAL your Dad's cell phone number.

Took 3 minutes, but the kid FINALLY got Dad's cell phone to ring.

Sterling said, "that is the ONLY kind of phone we had as kids."

steve

My favorite phone was one with no dial. When we picked it up and found no one else was using the line, we got an "Operator". She always asked "Number please". We'd give her the 4 digit number we wanted to call and we were then connected.

If I had to call my dad's office that actually had an exchange, I'd say to the Operator, Haymarket 4234. When the rotary phones came along, had to dial, HAY 4234.