I hate the telephone

I hate talking on the telephone. Any telephone. I view them as a necessary evil. I'm not sure why I feel this way. Maybe because the phone has always figured prominently in my work and when I'm home I don't want to deal with it? I'm really not sure of anything other than the phone (and answering machine) is not a priority for me.

It doesn't make a lot of sense, because I'm a gabby person. Run into me in person and I can chit-chat 'til the cows come home. Email me, text me, I'm right back to you. But talking on the phone - that's another story.

Perhaps because of this, when I was being lazy and watching movies on t.v. this afternoon, what struck me the most was how far we've come with phone technology.

The phones in the first movie were all big clunky desk phones (1970's).

Then we got more hip, more mod, and I saw Trimline phones (1980's) ....




The phone shown in the next movie was really high tech (1990's) ....


After seeing these phones in the movies it got me interested and I started looking up phones on the internet.

The Explosion-Proof phone I had never heard of this one

The Two-Person Listening Phone

The Genie phone

And of course, my favorite...