what about the devastating finality of a serious convo ending with the faintest intentional cl-lmp followed by the deadly electric all-but-silence
My colleague’s phone was cracking from all the times he very politely said goodbye to a customer to then slam down the receiver full force and let loose a string of expletives.
Today, I’m learning history lessons lol
Cell phones should be as durable as these things were. You could throw them against the wall, or stomp on them to hang up.
I have thrown my phone to hang it up. It felt really good.
Did not successfully end the call.
Accelerometer app when
The hardware already exists. Just need a phone app that calls on it to end call.
Nokia broke, unfortunately.
I also remember dialing numbers, and not finishing (i.e. trying to dial a 9, but my finger getting snagged at 4) one of them, so I would have to hang up and start all over again.
I hated this though
What are you talking about? After slamming the phone in anger you relax by untangling that with the benifit of the phone being off the hook so the turdbasket can’t call you back.
Prude
I knowwwwww! It was always so tangled and had loops flipped around, so I would spend time fixing it, but of course it would just happen again if anyone used it ….
I probably spent hours of my youth fixing these.
People who moved around and swapped the phone from ear to ear constantly were the usual culprits. If you twist one way, you have to twist back. Ignoring the reconciliation just led to this mess.
Really no different than a hose or extension cord.
Every clockwise twist incurs a debt to the counterclockwise adjustment. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
I love that “fucker” is not censored
They were also built to be murder weapons. Seriously. They were were built tough enough that slamming the phone was the rule, not the exception.
Flip phones were nice for this too
The ideal use of the flip phone was to snap it shut as you were slowly walking away from an explosion.
I guess this post is PG13 because it was permitted just one fuck.
And if you somehow managed to break it, some guy would come to your house and fix it for FREE.
Yup, nothing quite like telling someone to fuck off and slamming that sucker back into it’s holder. BAM!
The Model 500 was basically the perfect phone.
I hang up on like 3 or more people every week, and I can confirm. Tapping a phone screen just doesn’t do it for me.
You answer calls from people that you have to hang up on?
I just don’t answer random calls (well, my phone doesn’t ring for strangers).
Occasionally, numbers I don’t recognize are a doctor’s office or dentist’s office or something else valid. Enough that I can’t really afford to ignorenall numbers don’t know. Plus, like, it’s still somewhat satisfying to waste their time.
The modern version of this is called SWATing
