Sweeping open the change door of a pay phone to check if there were any dimes in there - ThreadSky

timdickinson.bsky.social • 49 days ago

Sweeping open the change door of a pay phone to check if there were any dimes in there

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

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kcarpenter528.bsky.social•49 days ago

Mom always told me not to do that because people put used drug needles in there to give you aids! Probably as bad of an urban legend as drugs in Halloween candy 😂

timdickinson.bsky.social•49 days ago

God, surprised i never heard that one! 😯

peachresist.bsky.social•49 days ago

Getting inside a telephone booth to make a call in winter, and closing up the folding door against the wind to make it cozy.

jtgriffith.bsky.social•49 days ago

OMG I haven’t thought about that in years. Thank you!

bsflynn.bsky.social•49 days ago

Slamming the phone down in frustration / disgust / anger.

laserjockaz.bsky.social•49 days ago

Friend and I were walking through some store parking lot on our way back home some 45ish years ago and I walked into an outside pay phone booth. Goofing around I picked up the handset and hit a few numbers and the thing started dumping all its change. We took it and ran. No clue what happened.

timdickinson.bsky.social•49 days ago

A core childhood memory is finding $10 in coins in a change door

pettyobservations.bsky.social•49 days ago

Hand crank windows were… fun?

v-ron.bsky.social•49 days ago

Pencil eraser end to rewind a casset tape

bartonstanley.org•49 days ago

Flipping through the card catalog at the library.

largesseadultson.bsky.social•49 days ago

Feeling the static fuzz coming off a tv screen

weeabi.bsky.social•49 days ago

Hang about a little minute here - opening soda cans with a ring pull???

What else do you open them with over there now? Are we missing out on some newfangled invention in the uk?

rbsimon.bsky.social•49 days ago

Flipping the coin return lever a few times, for that matter — which often worked.

vladadog.bsky.social•49 days ago

Hitting the coin return like the pay phone was a slot machine

oddsock57.bsky.social•49 days ago

Opening a can of beer with a church key. Seriously.

zallgoodbaby.bsky.social•49 days ago

I shift gears on my manual transmission car every time I drive it. Love it.

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