When touch tone phones came out, the phone companies had this brilliant idea to scam more money out of people and charged extra to use touch tone. So, my parents didn’t want to pay for that and used rotary phones long after they went out of fashion. And even the touch tone phones they bought had a switch to set them to “dial pulse” mode.

I still remember some guests’ looks of astonishment when they went to dial a number and the phone didn’t make the expected noise. Some even had no idea how a rotary phone worked.