i remember the old payphone...

lets rewind 20 years back. i remember having one of these in our house in blossom heights back in Seremban. It had the loudest ring, and the longest dial roll buttons (imagine the frustration of calling 999 only to be waiting for it to roll back to zero in times of emergency! haha) when u picked it up there was a sound of a person at the end of it and both people would say hello n get on to the conversation.

 i remember conversations back then were more sincere, u could hear the expression of the person thru his/her voice on the phone, the background sounds of the tv, dog barking n banging noises from the garden or kitchen..oh my schooling years were so attached to the house phone calling friends like Serena, Joanne, Mary Anne (most frequent) to ask for homework, gossip about boys n stickers, arranging a movie outing on the yellow bus or just meeting up to go cycling. 

Everytime the phone rang my heart would sprint with joy n i  remember everybody dropping everything n rushing to pick it up. me n my bros would race n whoever held the phone first would push the other away then shout the person's name needed on the phone. 

nowadays the house phone barely rings at all..it has lost its charm, its power to attract and lies no more than a piece of house furniture slowly forgotten ..sigh..

and now we rewind 10 years back. i remember cycling to the payphone to call my friends n puppy love boyfriends at that time because dad use to nag n mom use to screen all calls at home. payphones were also useful when we were at school or on outings n had to call home for parents to come pick us up. i remember inserting 10 cents and topping up when the screen started blinking. then a fren taught me that u could press the star * and hash # button continuously to talk longer. haha! oh the naive-ness of our youth..

I'm thankful to Telekom for placing these in schools, roadcorners and shopping malls. such useful things they once were.

they have given me the gift of communication, to speak n laugh, giggle over the phone like a little girl. to convey msges and sweet nothings. to give me the wonderful memories of growing up.

I bet many children these days dont know how to even use one of these pay phones as kids as young as 5 years old have their own cellphones.

oh how fast times have changed with the wave of technology and sweeping all the people along with it..

i still prefer the era of the payphone when conversations back then were more sincere, communication was REAL and when life was simpler and easier to understand :,)

did u have the privilege of using both house phone n payphone? they were awesome stuff in our generation wont u agree? ;)