Do anyone of you remember the free telephone calls our parents got????
Boy this just opened it up for abuse. I remember us calling people with the surname of a colour and saying .. "Hello is this Mrs Brown?" and they would answer "No, this is Mrs Green" and then we would laugh and say sorry wrong colour!!
Then there were the other phone calls, not going to tell you otherwise i may have a few lawyer letter being sent my way... ::) ::)
And those old tickey box's , the one at the post box's made a good hokkie to drink skelm in!
;D
I remember the free phones - you mean they are no more?!!! I can even remember our number was 243. Also the tickeys - bought most things in our day - tickey cone, tickey lucky packet. High living!
we used to sneak use of the free phone at the horse riding club and do prank calls from there............no names mentioned...oh ok i will me, bianca, hanneli[duimpie] rebecca and many many more names id like to remember..oom danie used to go balistic even though it was free...............
I remember the pray line 3777. You phone it let it start hang up , phone back , it would be engaged , so you dial 2 and wait for phone back call and then run
I remember doing that to Henok, the barman at Sportsmans more than a few time... ::)
Talking of Old Barmen, I see Paulus is back intown, working as a barman at Nitecall.... for half his previous salary..... looking quite old now....
:-[
Our telephone number was 727. Amazed that I still know it. Or was that the PO Box number? ::)
Our's was 484 and our box number was 435 - I'm sure nobody's interested but I just thought I would upstage Robert ...
Quote from: Barbara du Plessis (nee Winstanley) on August 04, 2007, 04:54:24 PM
Our's was 484 and our box number was 435 - I'm sure nobody's interested but I just thought I would upstage Robert ...
Barbs - you always did! :D
And it was always a welcome relief. Bwahaahaahaa ;D
Robert
I'll upstage you as well. As well as our telephone number already mentioned above, our PO Box was 493. I seem to remember Barbs and I did a lot of hanging around there ???
Ann
Errr well, we were PO Box 44.
So there! :D
Isn't it amazing how we all hold such trivia in our head!
Yea, but I can't remember what I had for breakfast, lol
po box 422, same PO box for 37 years......, save that I also use the works.... remember cdm was always PO BOX 35, who has PO BOX # 1 I wonder....
the GM would be my guess.
Didn't he have SC 1 on his car as well.
1's, 3's & 4's... my folks stayed at 13-14th Ave, tel 3411 and PO Box 413; I always thought it was a bit cranky but coincidences like these do happen...
We used to call a girl (don't remember her name) and change our voices. "Is my mommy there". She tried so hard to calm us down and in the end we hung up ... We did this several times, and she always fell for it. Pranking on the phone could cost you a fortune back in the 80s. Nowadays I have flatrate throughout germany for about 33€ a month.
We had 334 till 79. Only phone-number I never forget. hahaha
Our Box number was 405. Telephone 880.
And who could forget Margie Badenhorst. I was so scared of her!!!!!!
I remember Barbara Winstanley....wish I'd known she was in Knysna. I stayed at Pezula last year (at the Hotel)