Back In The Day nostalgic nineties
Aug 20, 2026 · 31 min · 13 segments
**Sorry we not in at the moment….** **Answer phones weren’t invented in the nineties but we could only afford them then .** **What an invention a machine that records all call when you are out in…
How many phones did you have in the house, Dean?
Phones? We had one phone by the front door when no one could hear it.
Do we talk less to our friends? Are we less close? I
think we did that quite a bit, didn't we? We didn't used to phone each other much, did we?
No, never.
No, I can't remember phoning you.
Yeah, I would just turn up.
Yeah.
Oh, Dean's here again.
I'll come in then.
Right.
Is it you two or is it Sabutio today? Yeah.
My phone bills were ridiculous.
I used to phone up people for chats.
I don't know whether it's because I was lonely.
I just think we were more social, weren't we?
You even had the talking clock, didn't you? Do you remember the talking clock? Yeah,
right, right.
Yeah.
I
remember being at school and kids getting really excited about it.
They phoned up the talking clock.
Why did sometimes the answer machine kick in and we all sat there and didn't pick up the receiver? The French lingo from a lady's lips does wonders.
And I'm sure people just used to phone up just to hear a voice, didn't really want to talk to us.
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