When The Phone Rings: Then Vs. Now | James Gregory
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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The world was a better place in many ways. At least you always knew where the phone was ... and your phone wasn't tracking you.
And recording your every word.
Correct. Young morons who have a cellular phone grafted to their hands wonder how the world got along without these SIM, chip-driven devices. I just tell them that if you weren't home or near a land line when someone tried to call, that's just the way it was. I won't argue that cellular phones are inconvenient or useless. I would point out that most people have nearly forgotten the art of face to face conversation, and most of all, how to write a proper sentence. Some can't even spell a three letter word, such as the word "too". They use the word "to", nor do they know when to use either of the two.
Did I use too many toos and twos? 😅
My favorite line from my youth was, "If it is somebody we know, they ought to know it's suppertime. They'll call back.". There was no phone answering during a meal.
Absolute truth! We couldn't answer calls during Supper. Mom always said "if it was important they'll call back."
My mom always took the phone off the hook during supper time.
@@cjhoward409 Early on, we couldn't do that because we were on a party line. It was quite a wonderment when we got a private line. Livin' in high cotton!
My house too, now days people don't eat a meal without their cell phones
Hahaha sounded just like my grandparents! Like exactly! 😂
Awesome Stage
When we would go to see my grandmother may years ago, she would tell us not to answer the phone because that ring was the Simpson's ring down the road, She had a party line. Imagine the generation now if the neighbors could listen in.
I remember when we had one!
Also even without a party line the first cordless phone conversations could be heard by the neighbors
And now everyone just blathers away on their cell phones and forces everyone to listen, whether they want to or not!
Yeah, what is wrong with people that feel like they have to use speakerphone all the time and subject the rest of us to their mundane conversations?!
RIP James Gregory. May 9, 2024.
Phones used to ring off the hook. Now phones don't have hooks. No one ever "lost" their phone back then. It actually sounds kind of silly now even tho it isn't at all really.
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Back in those days if the phone rang while andy Griffith was on it didn't get answered.
Oh my goodness, you are my long lost brother!
MASH was another
Baa Baa Blacksheep! 🇺🇲💪🏻
Hee haw was another one
True Story
Life was simple and better, we talked to each other and kids. Suppertime was meant to share the day.
Y'all can laugh, but that's how it was!!!🤣
Yes even in ozz lol love this guy
I still remember being at my grandparent's house, and their phone would ring, but it was the neighbor's ring, not theirs (they were on a party line). My grandmother would carefully lift the receiver anyway to listen in to the call and we'd have to be real quiet so they wouldn't know she was doing it.
My mother loved the party line. They were four families. The rings are a little different for each family. And my mother would very quietly pick up the phone and we had to be quiet so she could listen in. When we moved, it went down to two parties on the line. My mother said she still wanted a four part line. The phone installer said there are no four lines. As a matter of fact. In another year you’ll be able to have a private line. My mother says oh no, that’ll be too expensive! The installer said no, ma’am it’ll be the same price. My mother was not happy. 😂 she wouldn’t be able to listen to anybody anymore.😢😅
My grandma did the same thing! Sometimes she would yell at them if she thought they had been tying up the line too long, so she could make a call.
Back in those days if you wanted privacy while on the phone you needed a very long phone cord.
My mother always had enough phone cord to go in every room of the house, one end to the other, an stayed on it all day half the night LOL
And hoped you weren't on a party line.
You could always go in your parent's bedroom, but then someone else might listen in on the kitchen phone...lol.
that's right, one that went all the way to your room
but.. you had to make sure you didnt' have a second phone in the house otherwise you had to listen very carefully if someone else was listening
but of course there was a trick to that.
Because your mum didn't understand technology too well, on the way to your room
you would unplug the phone in the lounge from the wall from under the chair (which was not very obvious) so when your mum picked it up she couldn't hear you and if she plugged it back in you'd hear it very obviously
We had a 25 foot cord and I would go upstairs into the hallway and lay down with my legs up on the wall and I would twirl that cord around my leg, arm … and my mom would yell upstairs “quit twisting that cord !!!!” 😬😂
My day just got better. Love him
He's definitely one of the best.
When I was a boy, we lived out in the country & we were on the party
line. They still have it today, but, you have to pay extra for it. Today
it is called a conference call.
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Love the accent. Sounds just like all my relatives in North Carolina.
Back in the day you would answer your phone 'cause it was friend or family callin'. Nowadays you don't answer the phone 'cause it's ringin' all the time: robo calls and telemarketers.
Same thing with mail. It used to be bills or letters from family and friends. Whereas, today it's Junk Mail. So wasteful. You buy something and the company you bought from sells your name and address to ten other companies. Now you're gettin' ten catalogs instead of the one. I've called these companies and asked them to take my name off their mailing list. They tell me it'll be six months to stop the catalog. Two years and twenty catalogs later . . .
Remember when somebody called and said "Your refrigerator is running.... you better go catch it..."
I grew up in Bibb County Alabama.
I miss those days!
Love this fellow!
One of the best for sure.
Love the old stories that were so true 👍 shows you that everyday life is funny when talking about later 😁
The joke is funny, but I’m very impressed by him using a joke about sitting on the porch as a way to sit down for a couple minutes without it looking out of place.
I always tell people trying to get better at public speaking to watch comedians, and this is why.
So funny! I remember those days when if we were out and the phone rang, when we got back home we never knew it rang 😂
Yeah, and didn't miss a thing. Nobody cared less, unless they were there about a phone.
Our neighbors would tell us. It was always turned up loud.
Caller ID and an answering machine.. forgotten tech?!
Yep. Before answering machines.
Yep. Before answering machines.
My parents still do this to this day over the phone but they fight over who has to get up and answer the 2 cordless phones ringing(they came that way in case you lose one) that's within reach of both hands😂😂😂😂😂
I hated that damn party line. Someone was always listening to your call. One old lady on our line would just butt in and say "I need to make a call if y'all will hurry up." Never said please.
Every statement true n accurate.
When we got caller ID mom and dad would look at the caller ID when the phone rang then have a discussion about who it was or who it might be instead of just picking up the phone and finding out.
He's the best story teller !
Who cares “something is ringing” when we sit on the front porch ? I remember life without the phone… oh sweet peace. Love James so much. Thank you 🙏 ❤
My grandma would run towards the phone as if it were on fire. Then she would hurriedly pick it up, slow the flow of time down, and then say, in a tired voice, ‘Heeeee-loooo’. As if she hated answering the phone. My cousins and I would jump up sometimes as if we were going to get to the phone first and grandma would frantically yell, ‘No, no, I’ll get it!’
My grandmother answered the same way 😘
@@allieeverett9017 That’s so funny. I love it.
I’m from the uk and it was exactly the same here. In fact when I ring my dad he says he knows it’s me by the way his house phone rings. He’s right 100% of the time 😂
The little holes on the mouthpiece of my grandma’s heavy black rotary phone was full of old pieces of dried food because someone would always call during dinner and she would never not pick up the phone. All those years of her talking on it while chewing food made us terrified of ever having to use that phone.
You could have unscrewed the mouthpiece cover (the part with the holes) and washed it.
@@L4JP We were little kids and it was something we didn’t want to touch, along the same lines as the cat box or someone getting sick before they could get to the bathroom on time. We would just avoid using that phone at all costs! By the time we were teenagers she was in a nursing home, and the story of that old phone eventually became something we recalled with all our other “strange grandparents” stories over the years. I shudder to think what our grandkids will be chuckling over about us when we’re gone.
Hahaha! True!
What is that a "then vs now"? That was just a "then"... For "now", you would need something like, "don't answer it, it's just those damn scammers, they are the only ones who call"...
No lie, my grandperants had a rotory phone and even though there were no rongtone settings, i swear that phone developed its own ringtone for some peoople.
Still have a rotary phone in my garage. I swear it does ring differently, depending on who is calling.
Back in the 50's and 60's our phone, a black one with round dial was in the hallway...and no chair to sit in. SO after doing some electronics training, I moved it over to where my mother could reach from her easy chair and answer it. My dad just looked at her one day and said, I should have moved that damn phone years ago!
So you're an electronics guy are you ?
Cool, ... Me to, Been into it since around 1977 or so since i was 4
@@martinkuliza Yep, a lost art to most but I use my knowledge all the time.
Gawd I remember the old party line. Our number 2 short 1 long rings.
Hehe the operator was the biggest mouth peice
In down.
Sounds they needed one of those coin-operated phones that only made outgoing calls! 😅
i learned how to answer the phone just for that reason
I'm a Brit and my mother does exactly this, she works out who's ringing by what time it is. "It's 8pm I'm in the middle of my dinner it'll be your brother wanting something"
Life in the South in the 50s & 60s. Laid back. Yankees should learn from that.
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They are learning. People in the city PAY therapists big bucks to just talk to them and "train" them how to relax. Laid back could end up being tens of thousands.😁
Then.... hurry to answer to see who it is. Now.... let it go to voicemail if you don't recognize the number.
In the early days, your "phone number" was a sequence of long and short rings. You turned the crank to generate the series of rings, and it rang in everybody's house. If you heard your sequence, you were supposed to pick it up and answer, and if it was someone else's you disregarded it. Or you picked up the receiver to listen to the conversation. Sometimes that was the main source of entertainment in a town.
I have a landline and the phone has caller ID. My wife and I each have cellphones but she'll answer hers when she recognizes the caller. I keep mine set up for Do Not Disturb and to only allow Contacts to ring through. Everything else goes to voicemail. If you don't leave a message I'll block you.🤷🏼♂️.
A great storyteller ❤
Fantastic - very funny
Can’t beat him. James and Jerry were the best.
Imagine USB outlets on every seat! At least for a week until they no longer are operational. And the FBI just came out against charging any device on public grounds. Embarrassing
Unless I'm specifically expecting someone to call I never answer the phone. I let the machine get it and if they don't leave a message then it obviously wasn't important enough to get in contact with me.
How true again!!
Now: why are you telling me, I silenced all calls. I’m checking messages in the morning. THEN I WILL FIND OUT THEY ARE DEAD WHEN IM WELL RESTED.
Went from black then white, beige, pink, & cream color.
Then came late 60's & early 70's with two new choices for kitchen wall phone to match trendy decor: avocado green or harvest gold. (and many folks had never even seen an avocado).
i'm the same way, call twice maybe i'll answer. my ex would jump over tall buildings to answer by three rings......
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It was a long distance charge for my grandma to call us but not the other way around. So we always knew if the phone rang twice and stopped we needed to call Ganky.
One of my favorite ❤️
I remember the phone ringing and mom saying "I wonder who that is ? " didn't race through the house to get to the phone.
In the old house we had a phone in the kitchen and one in the attached garage. The one in the garage for some reason always rang a second before the one in the kitchen. There have been many times sitting at the kitchen table with friends and I would hear the garbage phone ring and would say ‘Phone!’ And then the phone would ring. My fro started to ask on how I knew, I didn’t tell them but my grandma ratted me out by saying that I heard the other phone ring first.
They could have started calling you Radar.
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I wonder who the first person who ever lost a cell phone. I wonder if they said well at least we didn't have to worry about that last year.
My father would always say if it is important they will call back!
There's never going to be another one like him 😂😂😂
My grandparents never , ever had a phone .
Just passed away 4 days ago, RIP.
Where’s the NOW???
I still see telephone tables come in to the donation center. They rarely sell, even when marked down to $1.
R.I.P
lol
1920: Hello, operator, get me Joe Brown.
1930: Operator, get me Main 134.
1940: Operator, get me KLondike 1345.
1950: Operator, get me KLondike 5-1345.
1960: Dial KL5-1345 on a rotary dial.
1970: Dial 555-1345 on a rotary dial.
1980: Punch 555-1345 on a touchtone keypad.
1990: Punch 1-311-555-1345 on a touchtone keypad.
2000: Dial *3 to get Joe on speed dial.
2010: Touch Joe's icon on your smartphone.
2020: Siri, call Joe.
True southern story from simpler times.
A riot