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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·edit-220 hours agoWell it usually went like this: Beeep (that’s the sound you’d get in the handset, while the other phone would ‘Riiing’). Parent picks up phone: “Hello?” You: “Is Lady Butterfly there?” “Just a sec.” Patent screaming: LADY BUTTERFLY!! PHONE!! (Possible: ‘Coming!’) And then everyone waited in total silence until your friend got, panting after a short sprint, to the phone. Or: “She’s sick/at club/coming home at 18/…” “Okaythankyougoodbye” hang up. Thank you for attending my Ted-Pre-War talk.
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoThis is how I remember it. You didn’t small talk unless you both had a good relationship with the person and the person wasn’t there to come to the phone.
Well it usually went like this:
Beeep (that’s the sound you’d get in the handset, while the other phone would ‘Riiing’).
Parent picks up phone:
“Hello?”
You:
“Is Lady Butterfly there?”
“Just a sec.”
Patent screaming: LADY BUTTERFLY!! PHONE!! (Possible: ‘Coming!’)
And then everyone waited in total silence until your friend got, panting after a short sprint, to the phone.
Or:
“She’s sick/at club/coming home at 18/…”
“Okaythankyougoodbye” hang up.
Thank you for attending my Ted-Pre-War talk.
I can hear this comment.
This is how I remember it. You didn’t small talk unless you both had a good relationship with the person and the person wasn’t there to come to the phone.