When I was little it was considered mortally offensive to call someone during dinner or after 10pmhttps://twitter.com/KeenNavarro/status/1430680857694457857 …
![Most Americans have cell phones now. They can return phone calls on the walk from the subway station to their apartment buildings, [...] There is no reason why people do not return phone calls except for the power play of not answering. It certainly does not save time. It is tragic that we have to [...] ask permission to make a phone call. Just call! Emailing to ask for permission to speak privileges the rage, Supremacy, and Trauma of withholding over the human responsibility to communicate and understand. I say, let's go back to the first 100 years of telephone culture, where people looked up each other's numbers and called. The now "forbidden" 10 to 20 minute phone conversation could save the subsequent months or years of misplaced bad feeling. All this terrible loss, for nothing.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9rMqDyVgAU2fOn.jpg)
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right? We didn’t answer the phone during dinner, and if it was after 10 everyone panicked there was an emergency!
also robocalls didn't exist and even telemarketing generally was much less of an issue, so if the phone rang it was way more likely to be someone you actually knew
