Vintage talk
“What’s this?” a little girl with chestnut pigtails inquisitively asked as her gaze fell eye level on a small table with an antique phone displayed on it.
“Well, that is a telephone,” her grandmother explained. “It is what we used to call each other at home before we had mobile phones.”
The young one looked perplexed.
“How?” she asked.
“You would pick up the receiver, place it by your ear and mouth, and then dial the number you wanted to call by using this,” the older woman demonstrated.
The little girl seemed amazed.
“Back then, when you didn’t want to speak to someone, you just told someone else to say you weren’t home. Now, with these phones constantly strapped to our hands, the first thing anyone asks when they call is not if you’re OK, but rather ‘where are you’?”, the woman ranted on a bit.
“Life was simpler then. And quieter too”.
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