You can't use the phone and Internet at the same time
Posted by DustyScharole@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 250 comments
Posted by DustyScharole@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 250 comments
MochaMeCrazy@reddit
Push button cable boxes
fumbler00ski@reddit
There are only a few copies of the movie you want to watch. You can drive across town and come home with nothing.
Gadshill@reddit
Cashier used to place your credit card under a piece of carbon-layered paper and slammed a heavy metal slider across it in order to process payment.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Credit card? I think we grew up in different neighborhoods.
Gadshill@reddit
You never saw a Zip-Zap machine?
HeySquirrel_Hey@reddit
We called them knuckle busters at the pizza place I worked at
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Yeah, at the nice mall. Not our mall.
Lehk@reddit
I remember them from K-Mart
taskforceslacker@reddit
I miss the Blue Light special.
IAteAnotherVegan@reddit
I always wondered what those were called, it no longer matters it's now a zip-zap machine!
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
I called it a ka-chunker
Cisru711@reddit
It made more of a cha-chunk-a-chunk sound though.
Thin_Cable4155@reddit
People used checks (paper checks) absolutely everywhere.
darkofnight916@reddit
One store would pull out a rolladex and check to make sure your name wasn’t on the do not accept checks from list(small local clothing store).
kathatter75@reddit
Same, lol.
kimchiman85@reddit
Those were fun
GraphicDesignMonkey@reddit
Cha-CHUNK
Dakaf@reddit
I can still hear the cachunk chunk sound.
laexpat@reddit
Hey, what’s the vcr+ code for the show tonight?
Lower-Tomatillo-9513@reddit
Smoking or non-smoking?
NineToeBIll@reddit
I just got a page
evolutionary-road@reddit
07734
ShakespearianShadows@reddit
Printer paper had green stripes on it.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
And you had to tear off the edges.
gurnard@reddit
And the printer screamed as it printed.
shamust@reddit
Dot matrix printers!
Nwsamurai@reddit
I had seven phone numbers memorized at one time.
Competitive-Heat5402@reddit
i had to memorize my friends' numbers too
Unique_Economics_303@reddit
remembering phone numbers was such a skill back then
Over-Ad-5636@reddit
didn't we all just write them down somewhere though
Turbulent_Lobster_57@reddit
Phone numbers were only 7 digits
greendress888@reddit
Very small town Midwest here. We only used 5 digits if we were calling in town. Just the number 2 and then the last 4 of your phone number. I remember like 8 of the local numbers from when I was a kid in the late 80s-early 90s.
Poctz@reddit
I still have some of those phone numbers memorized.
rdhdboi767@reddit
I done blanked and almost forgot my own number when someone asked me for it in recent years lol.
IAteAnotherVegan@reddit
only 7? I think my mom had 10 drilled into me when I started school...
sgrams04@reddit
Kids today: “What’s a channel?”
gurnard@reddit
"Kind of a livestream"
larryb78@reddit
If you want to know whether the library has a book you’ll need to go check the card catalog
shamust@reddit
And the name of the person who borrowed it before you was in a paper pocket inside the book!
jackfaire@reddit
Younger people would understand that. Now they only work on whichever HDMI port they're connected to. Honestly It was more confusing back then that you had to be on one specific channel than it would be now.
ThisMachineKillsWOB@reddit
Computers used to come with frisbees.
Mudcreek47@reddit
Our TV only got 4 different channels.
justsomeyeti@reddit
I grew up on the edge/overlap of two broadcast regions, so we got like, 11 channels but only like 4 had decent reception
InternationalRow1653@reddit
And if you were sheltered and deprived like my husband, you believe color TV didn't come out til almost the 90s.
BasvanS@reddit
4? Well ladidah… 2. And that second one was new, so you had to be grateful.
On a clear day a 3rd foreign channel became less than 50% snow, but programming always sucked.
fleetiebelle@reddit
And you had to watch what was on when it was on. Maybe you had a vcr and a blank tape and could plan ahead, otherwise, patience.
pennie79@reddit
We had to share one tv for the household.
That was the one which blew my 7 year old's mind. She was pretty horrified by the concept of a broadcast schedule, no pausing, and ads. "So you had to run to the kitchen quickly for snacks?"
Alternative-Light514@reddit
Sometimes you’d be in a car and couldn’t role the window down because the handle fell off.
All of the computers in the school were in one room - the computer lab & you’d only get to go in there every now and then.
Before internet, you had to literally map where you were going. On paper.
Need to look for a job? Get a newspaper.
Missed the latest episode of your favorite show? Too bad, it’s gone forever.
Im_A_Nice_Karen666@reddit
UHF and VHF
eg0deth@reddit
I’ve had to rewind a cassette tape to continue playing a computer game.
-Odi-Et-Amo-@reddit
Cars used to have cigarette lighters and ashtrays.
gurnard@reddit
My 2010 car still has a cigarette lighter. I have a bluetooth receiver that fits entirely inside the lighter port, with a cord coming out to the aux jack. Pairs to my phone as soon as I turn the engine on. So futuristic!
JavaOrlando@reddit
My first car (a Mercury Grand Marquis) had ash trays and cigarette lighters in the arm rests of the back seats.
-SandorClegane-@reddit
My 75 Lincoln Continental had ashtrays inside the ashtrays.
Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit
You'd call the operator from a phone that was attached to a pole, and tell them that you wanted to make a collect call, and they'd ask your name, and when you said your name, they'd call your mom, and she'd hear your name and hang up, and about 20 minutes later, hopefully she'd show up to give you a ride, and if not you're on your own
ayeyoualreadyknow@reddit
My mom's side of the family all lived out of state so when they came to visit for a few days, when they got back home they'd call my mom using "person to person calls" then hang up just to let her know they made it back safely and no one was charged
obojones10@reddit
pin-ball 10 cents a game pay phone 10 cents
RunTwice@reddit
We could smoke cigarettes in an airplane
RunTwice@reddit
Also no TSA.. you just boarded the plane
Longjumping-Air1489@reddit
It was channel 4 for us, because channel 3 was NBC.
scoot2006@reddit
Calling a phone number to hear the time and weather.
OneManGang2001@reddit
There used to be either a local or 800 number that had a choose your own adventure type short stories.
An example is you enter a cave. There are bats to the left or snakes to the right; which way do you go? Press 1 for bats for 2 for snakes
Kyosuke-D@reddit
Core memory unlocked! Totally forgot about the phone adventures!!
Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit
Calling a phone number to get information on what movies were playing in your area too!
seamore555@reddit
Waking up to the national anthem on the TV
SameSpecialist8284@reddit
Is this an American thing… or North Korean?
seamore555@reddit
Canada
Foxy-Knoxy@reddit
Or hearing it at the end of the broadcasting day and trying to get as far away as you could before the color bars and beep occured...or worse static which 100% meant it was poltergeist time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cnchea6LHN0
IAteAnotherVegan@reddit
"what do you mean tv used to go off?" that was an awesome conversation with my kids. 🤣
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Wow. Core memory unlocked.
tibbletsforever@reddit
Blow in the cartridge first! Now give it a little wiggle… 🤣
RunTwice@reddit
Writing a check for groceries
TOkidd@reddit
If you wanted to talk to your friend, you'd walk or ride your bike to their house and knock on their door.
Objective-Plum1201@reddit
This one I’m glad isn’t a thing anymore. One of my son’s friends came over unannounced the other day and it was jarring.
rdhdboi767@reddit
Why lol?
Objective-Plum1201@reddit
I don’t need people just showing up to my house 😂 I thought we were all too introverted for this anymore. No? Just me?
EternalNewCarSmell@reddit
And if you wanted to hang out with people, you rode your bike around town until you recognized everyone else's bikes on someone's lawn.
creddittor216@reddit
Smoking…everywhere
Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit
I worked at a restaurant and the end table in the smoking section butted up to a table in the non smoking section, so you'd literally have a guy in non smoking sitting directly next to a guy smoking a cigar
InvestmentMain8414@reddit
I remember as a kid/teen my grandparents stopped all air travel when they banned smoking on planes.
Until I was almost 30, there was a hardware store that had their original "contractor" desk, with the holes where the ashtrays used to be.
Or when sone fast food places put up those glass rooms for a smoking section. It was so gross, even when I smoked I refused to sit there.
creddittor216@reddit
Oh, there was a smoking room in the stacks of my library in college. What a great way to burn down a building!
Powerful_Wombat@reddit
With the “non-smoking” section being separated by a waist high wall and located RIGHT next to the smoking area.
j7style@reddit
I was literally paid money starting around age 5 to set the times on people's VCR's, microwaves and other devices because the "adults" couldn't figure it out.
shamust@reddit
Our candy made you foam at the mouth
martianunlimited@reddit
We get fined if we don't rewind the tape before returning it
JavaOrlando@reddit
Really? I ever only got made to feel that I was unkind.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Sometimes it was cheaper to pay the late fee than the rewind fee.
IAteAnotherVegan@reddit
it was $1 around here, you got lucky!
darkofnight916@reddit
My dad bought and used a video cassette rewinder, didn’t put as much stress on the BCR.
nopester24@reddit
Video games worked on whatever channel you selected from the back switch. But it was usually 3 or 4
BabaofTheShimmer@reddit
“You have to blow along the cartridge”
taskforceslacker@reddit
I was the remote.
JavaOrlando@reddit
I'm your age and I never remember not having a remote.
Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit
Must have been rich.
taskforceslacker@reddit
Isn’t that nice. We had a “hand-me-down” TV from my grandfather. It was probably 30-something inches and in a wooden enclosure. Two knobs and it was black and white.
JavaOrlando@reddit
Didn't mean to hit a nerve. I just thought they were pretty commonplace by our childhood. Maybe I'm miss remembering.
taskforceslacker@reddit
All good. My reply likely came across more harshly than intended. Was meant as a light “oh, yeah?!” kinda thing.
badchefrazzy@reddit
Dunno why you were downvoted. Some people had the money to have a remote back then.
Adept-Address3551@reddit
I remember my gran having a chord connecting the video to a remote. Was cool.
imhereforthevotes@reddit
BILLY CHANNEL 5. C'MON NOW.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
It got to the point where I automatically got up during commercials to turn it down.
badchefrazzy@reddit
Reasonable. Wasn't there a law that was put into place that said commercials wouldn't be a certain percentage louder than the shows they were put on with (that's still being ignored to this day as far as I'm aware... considering I don't watch TV at all anymore...)
badchefrazzy@reddit
Funny. We had a remote that was wired to the TV.
kathatter75@reddit
I could only be the remote if I had the pliers.
taskforceslacker@reddit
My father, crafty fella he was, managed to fashion a makeshift replacement knob that was somehow sharper than the original mangled one.
EternalMehFace@reddit
I used a cassette to help me play a CD in my car. 🤭
ayeyoualreadyknow@reddit
Same!
rdhdboi767@reddit
Oh shit lol, I forgot about that one myself!
minxwink@reddit
So good. Mem unlock
BigVegetable289@reddit
Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, B, A. Maybe Select Start after that.
rdhdboi767@reddit
It used to seem like we had to wait an entire extra year for successful films to come out on VHS lol.
19Circa69@reddit
UHF channels
712Chandler@reddit
Crash up Hotwheels.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Oh shit, those were dope. Also the ones that change color in the heat.
Jedbo75@reddit
The computer lab
travistyle@reddit
Three words - Dirty Operating System
Ewe-of-Hope-002@reddit
Go up the roof and maneuver the aerial antenna there to get a better tv signal. A two-person job lol
I_HaveSeenTheLight@reddit
To save a radio station to "memory" in my first car, I had to pull the tab out then push it back in.
SameSpecialist8284@reddit
You take the phone, pick the number, and turn the dial round to the metal bar, let it go, select the next number, repeat until the number is complete
LardLad00@reddit
Fuckin 800 numbers amiright?
rdhdboi767@reddit
Bill collectors won't allow this to become a thing of the past lol.
Obahmah@reddit
a pencil sharpener or a rotary phone
BogOBones@reddit
baseball cards came with a rock hard stick of gum
waterbeds
cigarette machines
white dog shit
Knight_thrasher@reddit
When you rubbed your feet along the carpet you could shock someone
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
99.999% sure you can still do this.
No-Profession-6251@reddit
Man, I haven’t thought about that it a minute haha
Holmes221bBSt@reddit
When you went to a restaurant, the host would ask “smoking or non-smoking”
Late_Being_7730@reddit
My dad bought software for his computer to make my birthday invitations. It came on big floppies. We printed the invites on the printer that fed paper through with the bubble paper and I was in charge of pulling the bubbles off.
My friend’s parents had a small business, too. One rainy day, she and I spent all day faxing notes back and forth.
You didn’t have to dial all the numbers to call someone.
Oh, and I died of dysentery.
MahliSaia@reddit
"Here's a quarter. Call someone who cares."
coarse_glass@reddit
Internet came on a cd in the mail
Kellzy1212@reddit
Josh Johnson comedy
rdhdboi767@reddit
The party line.
Careful_Farmer_2879@reddit
Remember when Verizon cellphones couldn’t make calls while on the internet?
henry_canabanana@reddit
CD-ROM Drive
Dual Speed CD-ROM Drive
Quad Speed CD-ROM Drive
Hex Speed CD-ROM Drive
12x and then 24x
Grongebis@reddit
weed had seeds
CoyoteDown@reddit
Roll roll roll a joint, pick out the seeds and stems
Light it up, take a puff, and pass it to a friend
iameveryoneelse@reddit
Not if you bought that sensimella. I came up on brick weed but music taught me better things existed.
Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit
Seeds and stems!! It was always bad news when that's all you had left.
And it cost $50 for an eight of an ounce of good shit.
TravelingMatt34@reddit
Caffeine pills were considered the worst drug imaginable, but you would definitely not get into Stanford without them. We were so excited yet so scared to learn this information back in the day.
daydrinkersunite@reddit
Vivarin - Gateway to Hell!
BStevens65@reddit
If you over-wind your watch, you might break it.
Due-Explanation-7560@reddit
I needed stitches from a large wooden tv hitting my head...when I feel into it
wmubronco03@reddit
Having to redial the rotary phone because you messed up dialing.
Shinespark7@reddit
Hold on I gotta degauss my monitor
Into-the-stream@reddit
And defrag my hard drive.
elsie78@reddit
My 73yo dad still thinks he needs to do this.
RedbarnRiver@reddit
I watched The Super Bowl Shuffle, Rocky IV, and the Challenger Space Shuttle as must see events in my elementary school gym.
boyalien0@reddit
The tv straight up just didn’t air shit during the late night/early morning hours
GlitterBombFallout@reddit
At least some radio stations would go to dead air at like 2am, too.
FickleName5818@reddit
Be kind, Rewind.
___wiz___@reddit
There were TV channels between the tv channels
beeswax_swiffer@reddit
Waiting for dad to be done with the newspaper so you could see what movies are playing
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
Or read Calvin and Hobbes.
SewistDoc46@reddit
Be kind and rewind. Pressing record or pause during commercials breaks. Syndicated reruns.
lemmylemonlemming@reddit
The long ass cord on the phone in the kitchen came with an auto-tangle feature. It was wound into these like curls that would catch on each other and automatically attach to itself.
555byte@reddit
Sometimes I could pick up my phone and listen to the neighbors talk...
RonnieG3@reddit
Vacuum tube testing at the grocery store.
elsie78@reddit
Ask them for a flash cube
Few_Delivery_7098@reddit
Go turn the antennae.
Dakaf@reddit
TV signing off for the night.
FortyishYearOld@reddit
There were no colour TVs.
ithinkitsnotworking@reddit
I adjusted the bunny ears.
coci222@reddit
Untangling the phone cord was a skill
sprinklesadded@reddit
Airplanes had a smoking section.
Defiant_Flamingo4632@reddit
Please make a Xerox copy
Sparegeek@reddit
It used to cost extra if you wanted to call outside of your local city/area.
andyman686@reddit
Having to blow into a video game cartridge while vigorously waving it back and forth to try to get it to stop glitching when turning it on.
telos2020@reddit
Go get me a Zima
IAteAnotherVegan@reddit
there is a switch on the back that lets you use channel 4!
iameveryoneelse@reddit
Why we call it rolling up the window.
NotABot9000@reddit
Go turn the antenna
_what_fresh_hell_@reddit
Once I sent a fax for Connie Chung
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
fleetiebelle@reddit
When you left the house, you were pretty much unreachable.
throwawaycpa1980@reddit
Just make sure you're home when the street lights come on!
Late_Being_7730@reddit
It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?
CenTexPlmbr@reddit
This. It was freedom. As I age, the more I find myself being "unreachable". Even with my kids. As long as I know they are somewhere safe, be unreachable.
cutshop@reddit
On road trips, you look out the window or read a book. But we got a huge upgrade in early 90s with a mini tv with built in vcr watching Dances with Wolves because it was so long
Professoressa411@reddit
Blow on the cartridge!
smoothAsH20@reddit
Trying to learn how to fold a paper map. Well actually using a paper map.
dipatello@reddit
You couldn’t walk far while talking on the phone.
HeightExtra320@reddit
Couldn’t talk on the house phone while using the internet on your one computer you had in the house .
SpprtRdclHbts@reddit
My first apartment was 400 bucks a month
oadge@reddit
Mine was a 2 bedroom house for $500. I paid half.
OneManGang2001@reddit
Pops bought an Atari when I was 2. There used to be a game/TV coax switch. Had to reach behind the CRT TV to switch it to play the atari. It eventually moved to my room when I was maybe 9. He bought a 13" black and white TV to play on. (For all the young kids, TVs used to be quite expensive).
xt0rt@reddit
My first bedroom TV was a B/W 13" or 9". Many nights of Nick at Night were watched on that thing as I fell asleep.
OneManGang2001@reddit
You had to switch it to UHF to get the one channel that broadcast as channel 45. Lousy reception
Revolutionary_Gap150@reddit
That Ice-T was a rapper before he was an actor. She was so confused... I didn't bother to mention he also acted before he rapped, it would have just muddied the waters.
daydrinkersunite@reddit
We can't call Grandma until the weekend when it's cheaper.
HeightExtra320@reddit
Food stamps used to be paper 📄
kittykittymeowmeow01@reddit
Internet once came on a CD
loasdrums@reddit
We got a used PC from my uncle and it had AOL on a floppy (3.5"). It also had a series of floppies to install Windows 3.0. It was upgraded to Windows 95 before we got it. It had a whopping 500MG hard drive.
HeightExtra320@reddit
Couldn’t use your cell phone before 7 pm
MrThouu@reddit
Sometimes standing in a certain spot got a TV channel to show better
poodog13@reddit
TV dinners that came in foil trays and could only be made in the oven
MnkyBzns@reddit
*69
MooingTree@reddit
Sometimes you've got to edit autoexec.bat but other times you've got to edit config.sys
butterfly_ashley@reddit
I would only use my cell phone after 9pm unless I wanted to buy minutes.
Had to press the numbers on a cell phone multiple times to get the correct letter for a text
You had to watch the news to check for school closure
You had to get the newspaper for movie times.
Some cds came with a single song.
My first computer you could only type papers on
To learn something we had to spend hours in the library.
BanielJP@reddit
The “tape” could come out of a cassette and you had to carefully wind it back in without tangling or breaking it.
Second would be, if your video game didn’t work, blowing into it would fix it
NearbyAd9549@reddit
Calling somebody to have them tell you to call them back after 7:00 or whenever free nights kicked in.
TheDukeofArgyll@reddit
I made my dad an ash tray in elementary art class and he brought it to use at his office.
mekio_san@reddit
If I wanted music to travel with I had to burn a cd, after it was burned it was so fragile a scratch or a bump would ruin it.
NewToHTX@reddit
If you had speakers and a cell phone, you'd know a call was coming in before your Nokia would ring.
WilliamMcCarty@reddit
Being able to say "Don't believe me? Look it up " and knowing there was no way they possibly could.
minxwink@reddit
P a y p h o n e B o o t h s
shamashedit@reddit
If the phone ran 2.5 times, the call was for the neighbor. It if ran 3 whole times, the call was for my house.
Sirnando138@reddit
My eBay search from last night…
SpaceGrass_500@reddit
We would wrap aluminum around the antenna ears to get better reception.
PrttyPussSoupp1@reddit
You could smoke on planes. No TSA to go thru either.
Brokentoeses@reddit
No mirror on the passenger side
Stuts81@reddit
A pinnacle of coolness was to own a tiny box that someone would call, and they would type their phone number into it. If it was really important they would also type 911.
Candelpins1897@reddit
Use the contra code
MitchMcConnellsJowls@reddit
Restaurants had smoking and non-smoking sections
UnchoosenDead@reddit
Having my chest sounded during an asthma exam while the doctor was smoking... He set his cigarette down in his ashtray for the exam of course but still.
Perfect-Resist5478@reddit
Titanic came on 2 vhs tapes
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
The number of times my sister got a call right as a picture was about to download the good parts of a single porn pic. I’m frustrated and angry just thinking about it.
MitchMcConnellsJowls@reddit
Page me
_meestir_@reddit
Or 4 .. that’s a real thing
drewbaccaAWD@reddit
You can't call your friend who lives thirty minutes away because they are in a different area code and that's long distance.
juanvald@reddit
I amassed a $250 AOL bill due to all the time I spent in Teen Chat. My mom was NOT pleased.
BaldEagleRising17@reddit
You have to come home when the streetlights turn on.
LackingUtility@reddit
TVs with two channel knobs, one of which had “U”
blanksix@reddit
I never managed a successful appendectomy, but I did manage to make it West.
leave-no-trace-1000@reddit
Giant satellite dishes in people’s yards were common place. We had some weird channels come through on that thing.
AshDogBucket@reddit
When a public figure breaks the law, they get sentenced and serve their sentence like anyone else.
xt0rt@reddit
Insanity
Formal_Ground6513@reddit
If the picture doesn't stop rolling, give the side of the TV a good smack!
S_A_R_K@reddit
Calling a business from the yellow pages, asking for directions then having to wait while they found the one employee who knew how to get there from where you lived
UnconventionalBlkWm@reddit
Upon walking into a restaurant, you immediately asked “smoking or non smoking!”
70camaro@reddit
When you bought something with a credit card it went "kechunk".
If I was sitting at my computer I always knew I was getting a phone call a few seconds before it rang.
xxlouserxx@reddit
Smoking sections indoors 🤢
UnconventionalBlkWm@reddit
My first Dell laptop had an Internet card you had to insert into the computer to connect to the Internet. 😅
Acceptable_Class_576@reddit
I helped my mom balance her checkbook.
Unique-Ad-4369@reddit
My Netflix came in the mail.
Asleep_Welder_3494@reddit
No cable tv. We were better off
OrangeBlackMilk@reddit
waiting for a video you liked to get played on MTV
AimlessClimber@reddit
Call waiting was something you had to pay for.
WhoYouBoo_eek789@reddit
Sometimes I had to miss recess to beat the chalkboard erasers.
just_mark@reddit
you had to make sure nobody else was talking and pull up the plunger on the phone to get a dial tone.
party lines are why the whole town knew i was sick before the ambulance got to the house.
Professional_Suit278@reddit
Be kind, please rewind
croissant_and_cafe@reddit
You could smoke on the back half of the airplane on international flights
snoopmt1@reddit
You needed a newspaper or magazine subscription to know what would be on tv.
SameSpecialist8284@reddit
Mum, can you get off the phone, I want to use the internet.
Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit
Be Kind, Rewind
Hossflex@reddit
I once burnt my knee on a cigarette lighter while making out with a girl in her car. Apparently I pushed it in with my knee and kept it there. Since the pressure never stopped the plastic knob melted and red hit metal burned into my knee. I still have the scar lol.
usernames_suck_ok@reddit
Not everything ends up on social media.
Revolutionary-Bee353@reddit
Had to turn the tv on 20 minutes before the show you wanted to watch so it could warm up.
Emannuelle-in-space@reddit
I used to download music on dial-up while I was at school without telling my parents. Dad was expecting an important fax that got blocked by me being logged onto AOL and Napster or whatever. He put a block on my AOL account so I could only use it 5-6pm, but forgot that I knew my mom’s login pw. It happened again, and they took my computer away.
LarryGoldwater@reddit
When she told you she called but it was a busy signal, you couldn't prove she was lying.
DustyScharole@reddit (OP)
"No one was on the phone"
"I don't know, man. The damn phone company, am I right?"