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That's a phone!

I (Michael) was choosing a ring tone for my cell phone. Among the many choices was a classical old-style telephone bell that anyone who grew up in the AT&T monopoly would recognize as the sound every telephone used to make. As soon as Luke heard it, he called out, "That's a phone!"

It's not entirely clear to us how he knows that is a phone more than any of the other ring tones he heard, many of which are used more often as ring tones than the classical bell (pun intended) sound.
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C. L. Hanson said…
It may be from movies and television. It wasn't all that long ago that phones sounded that way.

It's funny though, isn't it? We're getting to that age where some of the things that were ordinary for us growing up are now ancient history for our kids. I still remember how amazed I was when my dad showed me the slide-rule he used in engineering school. ;)
September 19, 2010 at 2:11 AM
mathmom said…
Hi Chanson! I keep talking about listening to "Books on tape" and my kids are extremely confused. They love seeing the LPs we have (I dream about converting them to cds). Things change, and often we don't even realize where they started...
September 25, 2010 at 7:27 AM
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