“Do you know what a rotary dial phone is? Have you ever used one?”
That was the attendance question for the day. Silly questions, these attendance questions. Just little nothings. All the kids need to do is respond. No right. No wrong. Just the equivalent of raising your hand and saying, “Here.”
Yet what a humbling question to ask. For example (punctuation and capitalization added):
“Isn’t it like a back-in-the-day phone with like a circle and you rotate it to the number you need? My mom says that my grandma had one.”
Ouch.