Remember when the telephone rang, and everybody in the house yelled, “I'LL GET IT!”

You had no idea who was calling. No caller ID, no texting first, and absolutely no privacy if your little brother decided to pick up the extension!

This week on Life According to Lisa and Jim too!, we're taking a trip back to a time when the telephone was attached to the house, phone numbers had names like Cloverdale and Esplanade, and you could spend half the night talking to someone without ever running out of things to say.

We're remembering those ridiculously long telephone cords, busy signals, operators who could interrupt a call, payphones, the Yellow Pages, long-distance charges, and the excitement of coming home to a blinking answering machine.

And then came call waiting, three-way calling, cordless phones, and eventually cell phones. Suddenly, everything changed.

Lisa shares some of her own telephone adventures, from personalized answering machine messages and her beloved Princess phone to finding creative ways to get a little privacy. And Jim remembers when your brain was your contact list!

Remember when a phone call was something you looked forward to?

Today, when the phone rings unexpectedly, we stare at it and wonder, “Why is somebody calling me?”

We're laughing about how much has changed, what we don't miss, and a few things we just might.

So pick up the phone, settle in, and join us for Hanging on the Telephone!

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