Gino
Premium Subscriber
Here's one I've never encountered before.
For us down here in the lower 48, it was Thanksgiving this past weekend. We had family and guests, along with two children. Kyle was there and is 9 years old. A very bright young man and very inquisitive. After dinner was over, we sat around the table as the girls cleared it off and went into the kitchen. So we're talking at the dinning room table and Kyle was into this, then into that and he then started staring at something and I didn't know what he was talking about, when he said, pointing to a table top..... what's this ??
What ??
This thing ??
Kevin stood up and said...... the telephone ??
No, this thing with big round numbers on it.
I tried pressing them and nothing happens.
His sister went over and said, Kyle, that's an old fashioned telephone.
No, it's not. It doesn't work like a phone.
We all started laughing..... Kyle has never seen, heard of or used a rotary telephone. His sister showed him how it works and then he said, what's that noise ??
The dial tone. On cell phones, you don't have one of those, either.
The kid never saw such a contraption.
Everyone I've told since then has laughed and said, I never thought about it for these young kids today.
10 seconds later he was into something else and the telephone thing was forgotten.
The things most of us take for granted, huh ??
For us down here in the lower 48, it was Thanksgiving this past weekend. We had family and guests, along with two children. Kyle was there and is 9 years old. A very bright young man and very inquisitive. After dinner was over, we sat around the table as the girls cleared it off and went into the kitchen. So we're talking at the dinning room table and Kyle was into this, then into that and he then started staring at something and I didn't know what he was talking about, when he said, pointing to a table top..... what's this ??
What ??
This thing ??
Kevin stood up and said...... the telephone ??
No, this thing with big round numbers on it.
I tried pressing them and nothing happens.
His sister went over and said, Kyle, that's an old fashioned telephone.
No, it's not. It doesn't work like a phone.
We all started laughing..... Kyle has never seen, heard of or used a rotary telephone. His sister showed him how it works and then he said, what's that noise ??
The dial tone. On cell phones, you don't have one of those, either.
The kid never saw such a contraption.
Everyone I've told since then has laughed and said, I never thought about it for these young kids today.
10 seconds later he was into something else and the telephone thing was forgotten.
The things most of us take for granted, huh ??
