I can’t even hang up my office desk phone by hammering the receiver disconnect button with my finger anymore, the receiver has a sensor that detects it is close to the cradle.

Technology has gone too far.

You still can. Nowadays it shows you really mean it!

U can still do that!

Once

I miss being able to let the phone go to voicemail and being able to answer messages whenever I feel like it. Now since we have our phone with us including the toilet, people can accuse us of ghosting after sending us a text message, message us on social media, use a messenger, or email us.

Sometimes I just need time to be left alone.

I remember angrily soaking the numbers and waiting for the stuoid dial circle thing to return to the middle so you could get the next button.

I also remember me and my buddies throwing our flip phones at each other or the ground and shit, not as a novelty but because those things were just indestructible. It was more of a danger to who you were throwing it at than to itself. Safer to throw a rock at your friend than those phones in most cases.

And when you do, you rattle the bells inside so it makes a ding.

Ma Bell phones were built like tanks. Much tougher than the famously tough Nokia bricks.

“Don’t slam the damn phone”

Civilization at its peak.

Harry, it’s an inanimate fucking object.