How did we ever manage our lives without mobile phones?

[Danny-Boy]

I tried to get used to a mobile in 1997, the only trouble was that the only two places I could find in Seaford with reception were either on my allotment or on the beach!

Even now there are some pockets over here without reception, I think East Dean outside Eastbourne is one.

I got another mobile about 4 years ago, it's invaluable for country walks etc. But I try to use only the text facility, that can b gr8 fun...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

People did a lot of waiting around for friends to turn up. Churchill Square used to be full of people standing around, thinking 'I'll give them another five minutes, then I'm GOING HOME!'

And you always met at the same place. Come an evening ours was Shades.

 

[withdeanwombat]

..........and you could stuff paper up the phone box and go back later to collect all the fourpences that were trapped.Marvelous,marvelous days!

 

[fatbadger]

I still manage my life without a mobile. I can't find a use for one.

 

[Lush]

I still manage my life without a mobile. I can't find a use for one.

I would imagine your location has something to do with that though ..

 

[fatbadger]

I would imagine your location has something to do with that though ..

Sorry, don't get it.

 

[Lush]

Sorry, don't get it.

Oh. I looked at your location and i don't know Scotland very well. Are you not really in a beautiful spot (ie without mobile phone reception?)

 

[goldstone]

Sorry, don't get it.

My reading of that comment is .... badgers live in holes in the ground ... none or very poor reception ...

 

[Nottseagull]

Life generally was good until the moment BT raised the minimum charge for a call from a phone box from 10p to 20p. The bastards.

Even worse was when they did away with those grey boxes which accepted 2ps - they were useful for getting someone to ring you back when the 2p ran out. Now, the minimum is a massive 40p - meaning you waste 8 shillings if you get an answerphone.

 

[countrygull]

All those songs about people being stood up waiting outside the cinema. Wouldn't happen now - just a quick text: `not coming, dont luv u`

 

[csider]

phones and bits of paper. if you were running late you stopped at a phone box or simply said sorry when you arrived......people had brains before mobiles

 

[Theatre of Trees]

And if birds wanted to send you by letter a picture of them in their smalls they needed to either know someone with a polaroid or somebody who knew how to develop film otherwise the lads at the local Boots would leech at your pics when they were being developed.

 

[Taybha]

I absolutely hated speaking to girlfriends on the landline phone at my parents house. Everyone listening to your conversations. No privacy.

yes its a bit of a pain when your trying to knock one out to cynthia on the other end as she has a asthma attack

 

[Storer68]

Life generally was good until the moment BT raised the minimum charge for a call from a phone box from 10p to 20p. The bastards.

minimum charge used to be 2p

 

[BensGrandad]

I remember putting 4 x 1d to make a call but I would have thought that it started at less than that but I can't remember it, can anybody else?

 

[Nottseagull]

I remember putting 4 x 1d to make a call but I would have thought that it started at less than that but I can't remember it, can anybody else?

Up until the late 1960s you would pot your old pennies into the large black box and press button A; if there was no reply, you pressed button B to get your money back.

 

[element]

A common question in my youth was, 'Are you on the phone?', as it was the exception...

'Oldie alert'

 

[fatbadger]

Oh. I looked at your location and i don't know Scotland very well. Are you not really in a beautiful spot (ie without mobile phone reception?)

I am in a beautiful spot (open views to lovely hills in front of the house, miles of woodland walking out of the back of the house), but it is only 15 miles from Glasgow city centre! So reception is fine.

 

[perseus]

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

A lot of planning was done verbally face to face. If you were going out and the bus didn't turn up or was late there was no way to inform mates or birds. There has been many a time I've been waiting by the wishing well at Churchill Square for an extra 20 minutes before giving up.