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Post by otempora541 on Jan 6, 2009 13:16:53 GMT -5
Claudia gets a personal phone (way before 11 year olds had their own cellphones) at 12 years old. And apprently her parents pay for it, with a few dollars from the club. How? Why?
We have a girl who is constantly flunking school, only began baby sitting at about 11, probably doesn't make enough to cover her phone bill, and yet she gets a phone at 12. Her parents know that she is an artist, but it doesn't come off often that they go to her shows or display her work around. So how does Claudia get her own phone?
The mind boggles.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 6, 2009 16:01:11 GMT -5
I figured they bought Janine her computer so they wanted to get Claudia something too. For some reason I always think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off where Ferris got a computer and his sister got a car, only Claudia and Janine both liked their gifts. If Claudia knew she could use a computer to fake an illness, skip school, and have a wacky day of adventures with her friends the maybe she would have wanted one instead of a phone.
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Post by greer on Jan 6, 2009 17:19:51 GMT -5
Maybe she was just using it more than the rest of the Kishis combined and the Kishis were tired of her tying up the house line.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 7, 2009 9:59:27 GMT -5
Those are both possibilities. Computers were so uncommon and (I imagine) expensive at that point that getting a new phone line was probably small by comparison.
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Post by otempora541 on Jan 7, 2009 11:02:05 GMT -5
Those are both possibilities. Computers were so uncommon and (I imagine) expensive at that point that getting a new phone line was probably small by comparison. Right, but what about paying for the phone bill? A computer is expansive but only sucks up electricity. A phone is inexpansive but you have to pay for the phone bill.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 7, 2009 11:22:06 GMT -5
Probably they had an agreement that Claudia would pay part of the bill, however much she racked up; I doubt that would have been very much in long-distance before Stacey moved to town and moved back to NYC.
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Post by greer on Jan 7, 2009 19:04:20 GMT -5
I remember that the Kishis had offered to buy Claudia a computer but she turned them down because she saw it as an excuse to get to her to do more homework. She has one by the end of the series, though.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 8, 2009 9:05:42 GMT -5
Just shows how wierd time is in the BSC universe!
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Post by sugarandspicexx on Jun 2, 2009 4:02:18 GMT -5
I've never really understood this either. I always also found it a bit 'wow' that Stacey even had an extension in her room even if it wasn't a seperate line, I didn't think it was that common for girls that age to be given that privaledge in those days. Now however, it's a very different story with mobiles.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 3, 2009 12:09:04 GMT -5
I don't remember when anyone I knew first had an extension or her own line. I never did, myself.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jun 3, 2009 16:46:49 GMT -5
^My sister was given an extension for her 16th birthday (1992). We all used it (much to her dismay) because the only other phone was in between the kitchen and living room where there was no privacy and you couldn't hear very well.
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Post by alula on Jun 3, 2009 19:12:57 GMT -5
Maybe she was just using it more than the rest of the Kishis combined and the Kishis were tired of her tying up the house line. My brother got an extension when he was in junior high, for basically that reason, and my mom was sick of taking messages for him all the time. It was like a sub-line or something--it had a separate number with a different ring tone (bring bring instead of BRRRINNG, as Peter Lerangis might say), but it was still connected to the main line. I inherited it when he went to college, but non-stereotypically he talked on the phone much more.
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Post by greer on Jun 3, 2009 22:43:43 GMT -5
My brother has also always talked on the phone more than me.
I had an extension in my room for a while because there's a phone jack in there. It wasn't a separate line though.
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Post by msstock87 on Jun 3, 2009 22:53:02 GMT -5
I had my own phone line for about a year, but that was because at that time we had dial up internet and we needed an extra phone line so we didnt tie up the main line.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 3, 2009 23:05:13 GMT -5
I had an extension in my room when I got to middle school. I didn't use it all that much. I was on the phone way more back when I first started school. So I was six years old, and hogging the kitchen phone. It's funny to me now, because what's there to talk about when you're in kindergarten?
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