[[Well, I can turn my phone on in the time it takes to dial a rotary phone :)]]
Oh man, that’s like, forever!!!
As kids were were of course impatient and wanted o speak to who ever we were callin immediately, and we’d have to dial their numbers and wait for the rotary tO get back to its position before dialing the next number. Long story short, numbers with lots of 8’s and 9’s and 0’s etc were excruciatingly long for us imoatient folks lol
Can still remeber the “kitchen phone” we all used, and how excited we were when we fi ally got a longer chord so it could reach the livinroom lol. As ,i
You must be from the Silent Generation. Pre-boomer.
Just yesterday I was rebuked by my mom: "Don't say 'wait' to a boomer." Same goes for "later" and any form of "no."