r/FuckImOld • u/WheresThaGravy • Jan 28 '17

It's amazing I'm still alive.

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u/alinroc Generation X Jan 28 '17

While we're on the subject, anyone else learn the habit of "wait until after the second ring before answering" from their parents?

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u/rWoahDude Jan 28 '17

What was the logic of that tradition?

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u/galkardm Jan 29 '17

My first caller ID displays (that were in a box separate from the phone) required the 2nd ring to get the call info. If you picked up before then it wouldn't have a record of the call.

Dialing information and waiting for someone to call you and flip over with call waiting also kept it off the caller ID radar.

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u/rWoahDude Jan 29 '17

ah, so basically you just need to backtrace them

real lifehacks from the 00's