My son has a toy phone, and when you push the various buttons, different recorded messages or sound effects play.You'll hear things like "let's call Daddy," or "let's call Grandma." But on most of them, you just get a sound effect.
Most of the sound effects are as heard through the earpiece of a phone, like the sound of a phone ringing on the other end of the line. But the sounds that make me smile are the ones I know Grayson will never hear during the practical use of a real telephone. Things like a dial tone, or a busy signal.
I wonder why they even put those effects ON a phone these days. When he pushes those buttons, I always wax a little nostalgic.
So what is a child to make of one of THESE?
When I was a child, we were on a party line. Ever experienced one of those? You literally share your line with neighbors, so when you pick up the phone to make a call, it's possible that, instead of a dial tone, you'll hear their conversation. So you have to hang up and wait.
And wait.
Yeah, that Lela Plumlee was a talker.
1 comment:
Ella has one of those old fisher price pull phones...she plays with it occasionally and she does know what to put to her ear.....although she also thinks corn on the cob,shoes, bottle of water or whatever else she may finds also makes a good phone.
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