You know you're old when...

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Introduced in 1971. Almost fifteen years before I was born.

....when you read a post like this from a fellow contributor to "You know you're old when" thread. LJ, 1986 was like yesterday! I've got socks older than you!

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

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Nice plane. It looks like a PA-22-135 Tri-Pacer.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by SpeedBuggy

Bob Denver as Maynard G Krebs, then on to Gilligan's Island

...and then onto lunch, I said lunch, not launch!!!!!

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[3.0L]

you receive 8 or 10 spam/robo calls a day. I swear, it gets worse every day.
And I block every call, only to have the same idiots with a heavy accent call
again from a different number. The world is going to hell in a hand basket!

[vreihen16]

You know that you're REALLY old when all of your phones are set to only accept calls from the 10 numbers in your personal phonebook, because get off my lawn, spammer.....

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

You know that you're REALLY old when all of your phones are set to only accept calls from the 10 numbers in your personal phonebook, because get off my lawn, spammer.....

I never answer a call if I don't know the number. If it's important, leave a message and I'll call back.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I never answer a call if I don't know the number. If it's important, leave a message and I'll call back.

^^ This!

[Esteban]

"Hey, how about a nice Hawaiian Punch?"

Invented in 1934.

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I never answer a call if I don't know the number. If it's important, leave a message and I'll call back.

I have someone or some robot calling me everyday from the same number(which I have blocked). Apparently blocking the number does not block the caller. My phone doesn't ring or vibrate but the call still generates a dead-air voice mail every time. It's frustrating because it fills up my mailbox if I don't delete them continuously.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Buug959

I have someone or some robot calling me everyday from the same number(which I have blocked). Apparently blocking the number does not block the caller. My phone doesn't ring or vibrate but the call still generates a dead-air voice mail every time. It's frustrating because it fills up my mailbox if I don't delete them continuously.

Our home phone, which Wifey insists on keeping, is just another device on our Verizon account. It's a box that works off Verizon's LTE system and is plugged into the wall jacks, so you can use multiple handsets with it. It gets two or three of those empty space messages every day. We just end up deleting them.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I never answer a call if I don't know the number. If it's important, leave a message and I'll call back.

Yes, call display is nice but some companies are %$#@*& stupid.

I'm the security officer at my office, got an "800" call at 2 AM. When I got to answer, the person calling could not even pronounce my name so I let her have it... I guess they are nor intelligent enough to display "ADT".

So they call the second person on the list, the GM end up having to drive in. I still have my free parking spot

[vreihen16]

<--- Has a home phone

...although it is not technically a landline any more but a VoIP service that costs me about a buck per month for phone numbers in NY and SC. It rings on our cordless phones, fax machine, and simul-ring on both of our cell phones. We only give that number out, and the VoIP service must have some pretty serious robo filters because those two numbers only receive 1-2 spam calls per year.....

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I never answer a call if I don't know the number. If it's important, leave a message and I'll call back.

I sometimes do just to mess with them!

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I sometimes do just to mess with them!

Since they come from a calling center, there is a delay, when they say "Hello" I answer "I said that 10 seconds ago" most of them hang up right away.

[cmyx6go]

[3798j]

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[Esteban]

Did you take typing class in high school? I did. Basically forgot all I learned. Now I hunt and peck.

[M_Six]

I passed my typing class and still can't type, even after using a keyboard all these many years.

[3798j]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Did you take typing class in high school?

Not in high school but in the US Army AIT (advanced individual training) as a clerk/typist MOS (military occupational skill)...no electric typewriters either.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by 3798j

Not in high school but in the US Army AIT (advanced individual training) as a clerk/typist MOS (military occupational skill)...no electric typewriters either.

My first job at my first duty station was working in the S-2 (Squadron Security and Intel) office. I was listed as the S-2 officer's driver and I drove the S-2 Gamma Goat. But when I wasn't driving, I had to help out in the office typing up security clearance requests and so on. No electric typewriters there, either.

Gamma Goat

[vreihen16]

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[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Did you take typing class in high school? I did. Basically forgot all I learned. Now I hunt and peck.

Originally Posted by M_Six

I passed my typing class and still can't type, even after using a keyboard all these many years.

I got so good I had a typewriter with no letters on the keys. I was pretty good! Now, I too, hunt & peck!

At work we had two keyboards, the regular kind and an ABC keyboard. We mostly used the ABC keyboard...