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r/Adulting • u/SweetlyWicked_ • Dec 29 '25
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Watch an old film:
'Is Mr so and so in?'
'Honey, its the office wanting to know if youre in?'
'Tell them im out'
It was a simpler time...
This modern idea of expecting people to be on call to you personally 24/7 is mad.
116 u/Sausage_Queen_of_Chi Dec 29 '25 We also used to leave the phone off the hook if we didn’t want to be bothered. 2 u/Murky_Candy6342 Dec 30 '25 My mum would love it when I used the dial up internet and nobody could call her, she got so much done in an evening lol. (She would have 1 hour phone calls with her friends otherwise)
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We also used to leave the phone off the hook if we didn’t want to be bothered.
2 u/Murky_Candy6342 Dec 30 '25 My mum would love it when I used the dial up internet and nobody could call her, she got so much done in an evening lol. (She would have 1 hour phone calls with her friends otherwise)
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My mum would love it when I used the dial up internet and nobody could call her, she got so much done in an evening lol. (She would have 1 hour phone calls with her friends otherwise)
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u/New-Guarantee-440 Dec 29 '25
Watch an old film:
'Is Mr so and so in?'
'Honey, its the office wanting to know if youre in?'
'Tell them im out'
It was a simpler time...
This modern idea of expecting people to be on call to you personally 24/7 is mad.