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Nowadays, if the phone rings or if someone knocks on the door, it causes fear and anxiety.
When I was a kid, if the house phone rang or there was a knock at the door, we'd rush to answer in excitement. "the cousins are coming over."
simpler times
That's not times, that's you being a kid.
That's most things in this post
Eh, in fairness, I remember the phone ringing and my dad just being like, "Don't answer it," because telemarketers were definitely a thing in the '90s.
Lol yeah and my mum being like if someone knocks/rings when we're out just say "my mum is in the shower but she will be RIGHT back". I think to stop us getting kidnapped 😂 then people wonder why we've grown up to avoid people knocking on our doors 😂
That's why answering machings had speakers on them. It was a great way to screen calls. If someone you wanted to talk to was on the line you just picked up.
It really is just how reality intrudes on any safe calm space we have.
Meh, that changed for me when I got my own place, long before the internet.
Even then most calls were spam, which is why filtering via answering machine became a thing.
And friends didn't visit unannounced.
And how the phone rang during a thunderstorm