Expected guests are just welcome. unexpected ones are unwelcome
Before mobile phones, it was common to visit friends unanonced, if you happened to be in their neighborhood on a saturday afternoon, for example. It feels so long ago.
Maybe I just have a bad family :(
My mother grew up in a different country.
When I grew up she told me “In my birth country it’s perfectly acceptable and normal to show up unannouched, but here in (this country) you always have to call first”.
She thought it was bogus and just so people could vacuum before the guests arrived. The whole discussion was about vacuuming before or after guests, which is quite the topic for another day.
Later in my life I asked my cousins in that country about it, and they’d never heard of the concept of visiting unannouched.
Anyway, yes it’s like the change that happened with cell phones. In the country that I grew up in, you’d make an agreement and stick to it. In the country that I live in now (which is the same country) it’s expected that people message on their way.
1959 wasn’t even that long ago fuuuu
Like yeah it’s coming up on 100 years in… Ugghhhhhhhh only 30 years wtfffffffff
yup
“Call by number, it’s twice as fast”
Twice as fast as what?
Using an operator?
It’s actually amazing what you had to convince people to do. On Youtube is a film from 1940 about how to use these newfangled dials on telephones, framed as a granddaughter teaching her grandfather because she’s the only one he won’t curmudgeon.
There was something of a rebellion against the Zone Improvement Plan, that using ZIP codes would somehow drain the humanity out of the country instead of, you know, making mail easier to sort.
I had to look up curmudgeon, and then niggard
what whild ride that was
Allan Sherman himself wrote a spoof about Digit Dialing!
“What would I need a tell-a-fone for?”
Fancy doohikeys it’s just a fad
