The Telephone Emoji ☎️

Shit, I actually forgot about the telephone emoji in the prequel to this post. How could I? Since I'm already here, I might as well talk about more retro emojis and take you back to better days also known as "the nineties".

If you believe one early essay of my schoolboy self, my mum was obsessed with the telephone back then. She could spend hours on the phone, talking with her girlfriends Gabi, Ute, Elke, my auntie or my granny. When one day, our household was hooked up to the internet, things changed for her. These were very exciting times for my dad and me. The internet! In our home!

Mum wasn't the biggest supporter of us blocking the phone line for hours on end. She had important phone calls to make! I on the other hand, never understood how she could spend so much time on the phone. I kept my phone calls brief.

A typical phone call I would make sounded something like this:

Hi, Chris. Let's go outside and play!

A variation of the above, in case it wasn't Chris, who picked up the phone:

Hi, is Chris at home? [...]

Hi, Chris. Let's go outside and play!

Of course, I had similar phone calls with my other friends Max or Mario. There was so much to discover outdoors, why would I want to spend so much time on the phone?