Snoopy Phone

This isn't TV related, but I thought some of you out there might get a kick out of my daily life. My friend Stacey recently posted over her horror of the updating of Monopoly. I commented to her that you don't realize how much kids don't know about anymore. Since I work with 10 and 11 year olds all day, I see this first hand. It it can be pretty damn funny.

I'm a pretty big Snoopy fan, and the kids love to give me Snoopy/Peanuts themed things (which helps me receive less other junk). One of my students brought in a Snoopy phone to share with me. (I wasn't totally clear whether it was visiting or a gift, but suffice to say it was a funny experience.) The phone was a rotary dial one. Every day I would find crowds of kids around it, dialing it, fascinated by it. They would ask me, "Ms. Sellers, how does this work", "how do you dial", and my personal favorite, "how would you call 911". I explained to them that we had to dial only 7 numbers back then and it was a little easier. We also didn't have 911, I think we dialed the police directly or called "0" for the operator. They were also frankly puzzled by the cord for the jack. I'm sure they never see hardwired phones of any kind. They've probably only ever seen cordless or cell phones. They wanted to know if I could plug the phone into the computer. I had to explain to them what a modem is- another thing they have no knowledge of.

The best punchline of all was when I overhead one of my students calling for pizza and saying, "yes 500 pizzas please, and charge them to Ms. Sellers". Priceless.....