Baby Boomer Alert: What is That….a Wall Phone?
I was visiting my Mom's house the other day. I heard a phone ring. You know, that old fashioned "riiinngg riiiinnngg" that we have all heard for fifty years or more? Not the tiny, tinny electro-beep that comes from a cell phone.
It has always been there. Right at the end of our kitchen snack bar in the home I grew up in in Sidney. I guess I just had forgotten about it. As the phone continued to ring Mom got up and answered it. It was surreal. She has done this as long as I can remember. But for some reason I was so struck by the thought of my 87-year old Mom cheerily answering something as archaic as a wall phone that I had to snap a photo of it.
You know, to show my kids.
They've never seen anyone answer a wall phone!