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May 15, 2022
5:16:34pm

runitup590 All-American

Are you sure you’re a baby boomer? This sounds to me like you actually might be:

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runitup590

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Last login: Mar 31, 2024
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Time

Fine, call me "Boomer"..."OK Boomer, sure..."

Xenon

5/15/22 4:30pm

Welcome to 2022. Landlines are dinosaurs.

Saxa

5/15/22 4:31pm

Haven't had one since about 2002. Last one was at a BYU apartment.

Plato

5/15/22 4:37pm

“Honey, that creepy old guy was calling to try to talk to little Johnny again.” “Well you didn’t let him did you?!”

RdF3

5/15/22 4:33pm

I'm old and I don't have a land-line.

5/15/22 4:33pm

You want people to have landlines so you can contact children more easily? Uh, ok then.

TCuz

5/15/22 4:34pm

This might be the most "OK Boomer" thing I've ever read.

Hotlanta

5/15/22 4:36pm

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Traveshamockery

5/15/22 4:40pm

That's not a bug, it's a feature

5/15/22 4:40pm

Buy them an old rotary phone and tell them it's "hip".

Shore10

5/15/22 4:41pm

People still have those?

stenso

5/15/22 4:42pm

I am and old boomer with no kids in the home. We still have a landline (Ooma

Hoopster

5/15/22 4:42pm

I never thought I was being young, cool, and hip for ditching my line that

benny1982

5/15/22 4:42pm

I’ve never felt so cool and hip in my whole life as I do right now.

Tim to some

5/15/22 4:43pm

It’s an unnecessary expense.

5/15/22 4:44pm

Yeah, I agree. Kids also don't learn how to answer a phone anymore

Belboz

5/15/22 4:45pm

The correct way to answer a phone is to not answer the phone.

TCuz

5/15/22 4:48pm

You sound confused. Take my arm and we'll go back to your room. Thaaat's right..

PGVikingDad

5/15/22 4:46pm

I know you think you’re being hip and cool posting this on an internet message board, but if you really wanted to get

DieHarder

5/15/22 4:46pm

Pssh. Kids today and their paper.

Courtimedes

5/15/22 5:16pm

My parents are in their mid-70s and haven’t had a landline in 5-10 years.

KingDave

5/15/22 4:50pm

So you dislike having to clear through parents to talk to a teenage girl?

5/15/22 4:56pm

I switched my landline to a cell line. so still have a home number,

Y-Zag

5/15/22 4:57pm

This sounds like just having a cell phone with extra steps

Hotlanta

5/15/22 4:58pm

Are you sure you’re a baby boomer? This sounds to me like you actually might be:

runitup590

5/15/22 5:16pm

Don’t even get me started on how big a pain sending documents to children is

5/15/22 5:21pm

I can’t remember the last time someone had a hitching post for my horses.

5/15/22 5:44pm

You can hardly find a good blacksmith anymore either.

stenso

5/15/22 5:54pm

I've got a good one about 3 miles from me. Expert in making new wagon wheels

Y-Zag

5/15/22 6:01pm

Completely agree! Add a cell line (without data) with cheap phone for the home.

Coug-Ida

5/15/22 6:29pm

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