We have the rare appearance of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Pattersons kids usually go for the peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I guess Michael was thrown off his sandwich game after he had to deal with Lizzie’s cheese wrapper sandwich prank from Sunday.
Lizzie is apparently still carrying a grudge against Mike for Sunday and she has decided to play another prank using the phone instead. I hope that wasn’t the call from Martha Mike was waiting for. Judging from his extreme facial expression in the final panel, he must have been expecting an important call.
My older brother had a female friend who would call to talk to him. If he wasn’t home, she would talk to me (even though I was 3 years younger, in junior high as opposed to their high school). She & I had some lovely conversations. One time she called to invite him to a party. He wasn’t home. She asked me if I wanted to go! Of course I couldn’t, but she actually had a couple of the other guys at the party talk to me on the phone! (Believe me, when you’re a 13-year-old girl, talking to high school boys on the phone was a HUGE deal!)
My uncle passed away 5 years ago. (He was 85) He still had a rotary phone in his bedroom. He had a touch-tone phone downstairs. When I bought it, I had to flip a switch it had so that it would imitate rotary. I tried for years to explain that he could switch it over when faced with an automated menu call but he never used it. (I think he was too stubborn)
Speaking of wall phones, we still have one too. This one reminds me of the time in late 80’s when my daughter had some girls over and it was time to call the parents to be picked up. In those days we still had a rotary phone, and it is was funny to us that some girls didn’t know how “to dial” the number…. they thought that just pointing the finger at the number would dial it up. I showed them that one had to drag the dial until the little hook and then let it go. So when they finished dialing they told their parents about it. We still have that phone in the basement, since we never gave up our land line.
My parents had one My father dislike my cell phone. Kept telling me it sounded strange.. theirs also had speed dial never ask for a phone number all you got was press the number that was connected to phone number . Wasn’t a rotor but push button… Miss them and those old phones…
My mother in law used to have a wall phone with a cord that was long enough for the call to be carried from the kitchen down to the master bedroom, around into the master bath. Seriously. Granted, it is a ranch house layout and around 1,300 sq ft, but still…I remember family, they were pacers, as in walking back and forth, walking around the entire house with the cord hanging in the air, even outside with the cord threaded through the edge of the sliding door against the door frame. Of course, once wireless phone hit the market, the corded phone was dumped – FAST. Actually, it stayed on the wall abandoned for a while before removed for painting.
Alphaomega over 6 years ago
For those of you under the age of 30,that thing on the wall is called a telephone.
howtheduck over 6 years ago
We have the rare appearance of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Pattersons kids usually go for the peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I guess Michael was thrown off his sandwich game after he had to deal with Lizzie’s cheese wrapper sandwich prank from Sunday.
Lizzie is apparently still carrying a grudge against Mike for Sunday and she has decided to play another prank using the phone instead. I hope that wasn’t the call from Martha Mike was waiting for. Judging from his extreme facial expression in the final panel, he must have been expecting an important call.
Rosette over 6 years ago
That person must have had a lot to say and no desire to receive a proper response.
jpayne4040 over 6 years ago
There are advantages to being an only child!
Wren Fahel over 6 years ago
My older brother had a female friend who would call to talk to him. If he wasn’t home, she would talk to me (even though I was 3 years younger, in junior high as opposed to their high school). She & I had some lovely conversations. One time she called to invite him to a party. He wasn’t home. She asked me if I wanted to go! Of course I couldn’t, but she actually had a couple of the other guys at the party talk to me on the phone! (Believe me, when you’re a 13-year-old girl, talking to high school boys on the phone was a HUGE deal!)
joegee over 6 years ago
My uncle passed away 5 years ago. (He was 85) He still had a rotary phone in his bedroom. He had a touch-tone phone downstairs. When I bought it, I had to flip a switch it had so that it would imitate rotary. I tried for years to explain that he could switch it over when faced with an automated menu call but he never used it. (I think he was too stubborn)
david_42 over 6 years ago
I have four sisters, growing up I never bothered answering the phone.
joefearsnothing over 6 years ago
“Hello….you don’t say..uh huh..you don’t say…OK bye. Who was it? They didn’t say!
rob over 6 years ago
It was Elly telling Mike: “If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!”
Templo S.U.D. over 6 years ago
How shocking!
1JennyJenkins over 6 years ago
Speaking of wall phones, we still have one too. This one reminds me of the time in late 80’s when my daughter had some girls over and it was time to call the parents to be picked up. In those days we still had a rotary phone, and it is was funny to us that some girls didn’t know how “to dial” the number…. they thought that just pointing the finger at the number would dial it up. I showed them that one had to drag the dial until the little hook and then let it go. So when they finished dialing they told their parents about it. We still have that phone in the basement, since we never gave up our land line.
greatgrannyszoo over 6 years ago
My parents had one My father dislike my cell phone. Kept telling me it sounded strange.. theirs also had speed dial never ask for a phone number all you got was press the number that was connected to phone number . Wasn’t a rotor but push button… Miss them and those old phones…
capricorn9th over 6 years ago
My mother in law used to have a wall phone with a cord that was long enough for the call to be carried from the kitchen down to the master bedroom, around into the master bath. Seriously. Granted, it is a ranch house layout and around 1,300 sq ft, but still…I remember family, they were pacers, as in walking back and forth, walking around the entire house with the cord hanging in the air, even outside with the cord threaded through the edge of the sliding door against the door frame. Of course, once wireless phone hit the market, the corded phone was dumped – FAST. Actually, it stayed on the wall abandoned for a while before removed for painting.
JP Steve Premium Member over 6 years ago
We had speed dial in the 1950’s — give the operator the number and she put you straight through!
howtheduck over 6 years ago
Liz: Hello?
KC and The Sunshine Band: Oh, that’s the way
Liz: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Liz: Um?
KC and The Sunshine Band: I like it
Liz: Uh-huh, Uh-huh.
Liz: Sure.
KC and The Sunshine Band: Oh, that’s the way
Liz: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
KC and The Sunshine Band: I like it
Liz: OK. Uh-huh.
KC and The Sunshine Band: No. You say, “Uh-huh. Uh-huh”, not “OK. Uh-huh.”
Liz: Bye.
Liz: It was for you!