Comments on: Communication is the key!!!! http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/ Ramblings, rantings and ravings!!! Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Grannymar http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Grannymar Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:08:36 +0000 http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/#comment-967 Our phone boxes were green. We were one of the fortunate few to have a phone at home. Our neighbours often came to use it rather than stand in the cold outside the coinbox at the corner of the street waiting for their turn. Our phone boxes were green. We were one of the fortunate few to have a phone at home. Our neighbours often came to use it rather than stand in the cold outside the coinbox at the corner of the street waiting for their turn.

]]> By: Jay http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Jay Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:14:24 +0000 http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/#comment-43 That brought back memories for me too! We didn't have a phone in the house until I was a teenager, and even then I wasn't allowed to use it much. I remember going down to the phone box to call people with my Mum when I was very young. Those big shiny red phone boxes like the one in your picture. My best friend had a phone in her house, which I thought was very glamorous. My Mum would sometimes let me talk to her when she'd finished her own conversation, and we'd stand there, one on each end of the line, breathing hard down the phone and saying 'hello?' 'are you there?' and so on, because we were so awed by the thing we had no clue what to say! We have a phone box in the village here, sadly not red and shiny, one of the new grey metal and glass boxes. It regularly gets vandalised, and there are no phone directories. I have no idea if anyone uses it, but I guess they must or it wouldn't still be there. That brought back memories for me too! We didn’t have a phone in the house until I was a teenager, and even then I wasn’t allowed to use it much.

I remember going down to the phone box to call people with my Mum when I was very young. Those big shiny red phone boxes like the one in your picture. My best friend had a phone in her house, which I thought was very glamorous. My Mum would sometimes let me talk to her when she’d finished her own conversation, and we’d stand there, one on each end of the line, breathing hard down the phone and saying ‘hello?’ ‘are you there?’ and so on, because we were so awed by the thing we had no clue what to say!

We have a phone box in the village here, sadly not red and shiny, one of the new grey metal and glass boxes. It regularly gets vandalised, and there are no phone directories. I have no idea if anyone uses it, but I guess they must or it wouldn’t still be there.

]]> By: JimAtJaxtr http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/comment-page-1/#comment-38 JimAtJaxtr Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:16:37 +0000 http://www.iramble.co.uk/2008/08/communication-is-the-key/#comment-38 That's a really cool blog post. I recently had a similar experience looking at a phone booth--actually we have one that looks almost exactly like the one in your picture in our office. Just a small note in case you're interested--jaxtr (www.jaxtr.com) gives you an easy way to call mobile or landlines without high international calling fees. Anyway, blog posts like this get my imagination going. I wonder what phones will be like in thirty years from now. That’s a really cool blog post. I recently had a similar experience looking at a phone booth–actually we have one that looks almost exactly like the one in your picture in our office. Just a small note in case you’re interested–jaxtr (www.jaxtr.com) gives you an easy way to call mobile or landlines without high international calling fees. Anyway, blog posts like this get my imagination going. I wonder what phones will be like in thirty years from now.

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