Day 37- Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest!

This my entry for the Day 37- Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest - Prize 113.317 SBD, hosted by @freewritehouse.

You can also find today’s freewrite prompt by visiting Day 243: 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: phone, hosted by @mariannewest.

I have seen many phones in my life. When I was young we had a musical play phone that we could drag behind us and it would make a ringing sound. The first phone I remember in my house was a rotary phone. It was very confusing, and hard to use because I was little.

The next phone we had was almost the same, but it had buttons. It was still attached to the wall and we would buy a very long cord, so we could take it from one room to the next. There were pay phones which we never had money for. Some mothers would sew phone money in their kids’ clothes, but I always called collect.

Then we had some fancy cordless phones that had a built-in message recorder. We could record a message and callers could leave a message. We had a sit-down dinner so when telemarketers called in the evenings, we unplugged the phone.

To put someone on hold you put the receiver down. And if you picked up another phone in the house you had to check if someone else was using it, and then ask them how much longer they would be.

Eventually the cordless phone turned into a portable phone which turned into cell phones. Then the cell phones turned into computers. Most people have a cell phone, but not a land line.

Ding!