My teenage son called me from my Dad's ranch shop and said, "I just figured out why they call them Phone Dials rims"
He was out there working on his car when the old rotary phone rang. He thought there was a fire alarm, he'd never heard a real phone ring. When he found the source of the noise, it hit him: Phone Dials!
Funniest thing is he called me on his cell phone because he didn't know how to use the dial.

I feel old now.

Working for the phone company, I still have a rotary dial princess phone that works great that my nephew thinks is cool!

Now I feel old...

You know you're gettin old when the "retro" items from your youth are back in style! Cool story.

rd7839 wrote:


Bad part is, but I've been a field tech for MCI and Verizon for my son's whole life.
I mean, the kid can text message from inside his pocket without looking, I just assumed...