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Element 99

Seniors here, do you remember "Can you come over and play?"?

Posted - April 21, 2022
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  • 17593
    We just knocked on doors; I don't remember using the phone until I was in fourth grade.  We had a phone as long as I can remember but it was for the grown ups unless they wanted us to say hello to whomever they were talking to.  And I do mean just a quick Hello.

    Now wait; when do we have to call ourselves seniors? 
      April 21, 2022 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 44607
    Knocking on doors is the same principal. I remember once I called a friend and asked if John was there. His father said "Yes" and hung up. Now when my wife's friends call and ask if she is there, I say 'Yes, she is', and stay silent until they ask to speak to her.
    You are a senior if you remember those phones and TV was black and white.
      April 21, 2022 1:56 PM MDT
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  • 17593
    Oh chit!
      April 22, 2022 12:14 AM MDT
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  • 16768
    GenX here, we didn't get colour TV until 1976 (I was seven) and my family home still had that kind of phone until my parents sold it more than twenty years later (Mum couldn't manage stairs anymore, it was split level).
      April 22, 2022 8:46 PM MDT
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  • 2999
    I don't see myself ever saying that.  "Can I come over to your house" would have been more realistic. 
    However, I don't actually remember saying either one. 
      April 21, 2022 3:47 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Why specifically seniors?
      April 22, 2022 3:18 AM MDT
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  • 44607
    They (I) would remember using that type of phone and TV was black ad white.
      April 22, 2022 12:24 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    But that question is timeless.
      April 22, 2022 12:46 PM MDT
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  • 44607
    The question is only a day old. The picture is timeless. This post was edited by Element 99 at October 1, 2022 12:09 PM MDT
      April 22, 2022 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    I was referring to the question that was the subject of your question. smh
      April 22, 2022 2:59 PM MDT
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  • 3705
    We didn't have to call each other - there was an unwritten rule that when we got home from school, we changed into play clothes and went right back out to play.  When it was raining, we just all stayed in our own homes. This post was edited by Spunky at April 5, 2023 7:55 PM MDT
      April 22, 2022 7:38 AM MDT
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  • 23576
    That rain part -- except for WelbyQuentin who as a child often went outside to play if he saw it was raining. Loved it.  :)
      September 30, 2022 5:46 PM MDT
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  • 23576

    Maybe "Can you come out and play."


      April 22, 2022 8:25 PM MDT
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  • 844

    Telephone? Nonsense! Our street was all single family homes (except the duplex that had been a barn before it became a street). We would go to the front of the house where the friend lived, stand on the lawn just off the side walk, and yell out their name. If there was no response, we'd moved on the the next friend's house.

    My mother loved telling the story about my younger brother and sister who came home from looking for someone to play. My brother said, "San (Sandy) and I were the askers. No one was out but Filmer (elderly retired neighbor) and he wouldn't play." I think that my brother was married with children when my mom was still repeating that quote.

      April 5, 2023 3:11 PM MDT
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  • 3705
    We didn't use the phone because our apartment faced the street on which we played.  It was a given that every day when the weather was not too cold, we would come home from school, change clothes and go right back out again.  All we had to do was look out the window to see who was already outside.
      April 5, 2023 6:17 PM MDT
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