I hated this though

They were also built to be murder weapons. Seriously. They were were built tough enough that slamming the phone was the rule, not the exception.

Flip phones were nice for this too

I guess this post is PG13 because it was permitted just one fuck.

And if you somehow managed to break it, some guy would come to your house and fix it for FREE.

My colleague's phone was cracking from all the times he very politely said goodbye to a customer to then slam down the receiver full force and let loose a string of expletives.

Yup, nothing quite like telling someone to fuck off and slamming that sucker back into it's holder. BAM!

The Model 500 was basically the perfect phone.

Cell phones should be as durable as these things were. You could throw them against the wall, or stomp on them to hang up.

I hang up on like 3 or more people every week, and I can confirm. Tapping a phone screen just doesn't do it for me.

I also remember dialing numbers, and not finishing (i.e. trying to dial a 9, but my finger getting snagged at 4) one of them, so I would have to hang up and start all over again.

Allow fuck, but censor fucking.

what about the devastating finality of a serious convo ending with the faintest intentional cl-lmp followed by the deadly electric all-but-silence

The modern version of this is called SWATing