2 year old and her cell phone!

[Ivan the Butcher]

In the long running thread on Meme's, there is one about: It dosesn't matter how tough you think you are: When a 2 year old hand you a toy phone, YOU ANSWER IT!

So yesterday our youngest granddaughter spent the evening with us. As she rummages through the Rubbermaid tub of toys, she finds a toy cell phone that has to be 30 to 35 years old. The amazing thing is it still worked, well it worked for about 10 minutes of button pushing, then went silent. So she walked up to me and handed me the phone, so I say Hello! That wasn't what she wanted! She wanted it to work! And work now.

Today I got out the toolbox with the jeweler's tools in it, and started exploratory surgery. It uses two hearing aide batteries, size AG13. I happen to have a several year old card of 30 assorted batteries and there are 4 of the needed AG13 batteries left. Using a tiny Phillips head screw driver and tiny needle nose plyers I got the old batteries out, and the replacements installed. Opened it up and got musical notes when I pushed the button!

Lately, I make $45 per hour with a minimum of two hours, I had $2 or $3 in the whole card of batteries. So we will call this a $95 service call! Since she is two years and two months old her ability to pay is not in US dollars, But it is in AH. Anne Hugs! The exchange rate is: 1 AH to about $1000. So I'm the one who got the bargain!

While I had the micro batteries and tools out, grandma has a combo ball point pen and flash light that needed three AG3 batteries. I got it running is short order, but at my exchange rates with her, she'll have it worked off it 2 or 3 weeks! You Go Grandma!

Ivan

 

[Llance]

Dang you work cheap. I charge $65 an hour and a mim of 3 hours. Of course I'm a welder and my time is based on my experience. Maybe I should only charge $3 and hour since I haven't actually done any welding in about 30 years.

 

[Model 19 6"]

The 2 year old can probably do more with her phone than I can with mine.And she wanted it to work NOW priceless.

 

[Rustyt1953]

My brother was born in '59. He had one of these he would pull around and yes, dad would answer it.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...As she rummages through the Rubbermaid tub of toys, she finds a toy cell phone that has to be 30 to 35 years old. ...

Lucky it was a toy one. A 2 y.o. probably couldn't lift a real one of that vintage I got my first phone in 1992, a Motorola that looked, as I recall, like a WWII walkie-talkie. I still have the same number.

 

[DWalt]

Last week I met for the very first time my 4-YO Grand-nephew. At that tender age he knows lot more about how an IPhone works than I do.

Back in the early (mid-1980s) days of cell phones, I remember people carrying them around in something like a leather briefcase.

 

[krsmith58]

hugs

Ivan, granddaughter hugs priceless. grandpa best job ever. i have 1 granddaughter and my daughter says that is all i get. 16 years old past Nov. and still likes to hang out with her Popa. we are truly blessed. meet Lily May Smith Greenwald. krs/kenny

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Back in the early (mid-1980s) days of cell phones, I remember people carrying them around in something like a leather briefcase.

This is a Motorola from 1991

Mine, bought in '92, looked like this:

 

[DWalt]

Like the first "portable" computers of the mid-1980s. I had a Compaq. It weighed about 20 pounds and had a 6" CRT screen, green characters on a black background. It looked like a small suitcase. Difficult to accept how much we have advanced in 40 years.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Difficult to accept how much we have advanced in 40 years.

This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.

 

[Xfuzz]

When the first cells came out our department issued
a very few.
Being the "Large Sarge in Charge" I received one.
Hated it.

One is pictured above.
Reminded me of Viet Nam war movies.
Felt like I was calling in an air strike.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The "Walkie-Talkie" looking one oldbrownhat posted, I had a toy that looked just like that.

My church was a member of a 5 church "Mini Denomination." At joint leader's meetings, there was a jerk that would talk loudly on a real cell just like that. So at a later meeting I would sit behind him and when he got on the phone during a meeting I would get up close behind him. I would talk with God about what was he going to do to rude people, or give instructions on baptizing large pets. You get the idea. Pretty soon, he quit using his phone in meetings, and so did I. Since I was only a Deacon (and everyone know we are incorrigible!) what was he to do?

Ivan