Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for January 24, 2024

A time trave machine.

Show him how it worked, Pete. And how you had to dial 0 for the operator to ask them to get you the police. I always wondered why it had to be 0 when that took the longest to dial when you were having an emergency!

Do you still have one of those?

Yes – and an elderly friend of ours still has a fully operational one at her home.

It’s your grandads boat anchor.

Some kids don’t even know how to use them!!!

Several years ago, the young woman who mowed my lawn had left her phone in her dad’s truck, so she asked to use mine to call him. I told her it was on the wall next to the fridge. She walked over, stopped and then just stared at it for a long time before finally asking me how it works. I happily showed her after which she asked if she could call her friend so she could tell them how she had spun the dial to call them. Later after picking her up her dad called me to say I had made her day as she had talked about the experience all the way home. Something old was new again for just a moment.

Hey! Pull my finger!

Kids….today?

It definitely is a phone. I remember it from my childhood and young adulthood.

OK, it’s really a paper weight.

I sadly watched a middle schooler struggle trying to use a standard push-button multi-line office phone in the school office one day. He had no concept of how to push in the line button, what dial-tone was, and barely how to use the buttons to call home. Also barely knew a parents number, that was always just #1 on his cell, which he didn’t have. Yes, us olde-timers helped him out.

Just watch an old movie….

I fondly remember our old phones. I still have a “Princess Phone” in my club room. I will not get rid of it. I wish they would bring them back.

Best comic of the day!

It’s a time machine…there was a time when you could use that machine to talk to people far away