I bought Mrs. Anygun one of tose. Purchased a 60 minute/month plan. Told her it was for emergencies. I came home one day and pulled into the driveway. It was one of those 100 degree summer days. She was sitting in her Dodge custom van with the van idling and A/C on full talking on the phone. I asked her whatintheheck she was doing and she said she was using up her free minutes. I asked about the not free gasoline.jmra wrote:Yep. Bag phone. The battery for the thing was as big as the phone. They weren't cheap either.03Lightningrocks wrote:I had a neighbor back in the days before "mobile" phones went mainstream who worked for one of the major phone companies. That looks just like a phone he showed me one night after work. He was telling me how his company believed this was the phone we would all be using in the future. Even he laughed at the idea. They were "making" he and the other techs use them. It was a trial period for determining the efficiency of using mobile phones.jmra wrote:I had one of these before I had the one you are talking about.03Lightningrocks wrote:I can still remember having a "mobile" phone that was about the size of a large cowboy boot sole. It weighed enough that it would wear you out holding it to your ear. It would only hold a charge for about an hour. But it had a really cool orange light under the keyboard.
[ Image ]The way I reacted to that phone, one would believe I was an Indian seeing white men for the first time. The cost per minute to use the thing was some crazy high dollar amount. I will never forget telling him how ridiculous I thought the whole idea was. Good night nurse! Why on earth would anyone want to talk on the phone while driving around town?
I knew then that cell phones would be one of the causes of death to society.
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