That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。

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Back home, we could stay up into the small hours chatting about nothing and, when we were apart, we would text, email and ring each other dozens of times a day.

回到家，我们会熬夜聊着有的没的直到凌晨，当我们分开的时候，我们会发短信，发电子邮件，一天给对方打十好几次电话。

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Not exactly an 'awesome job' by any means, but it's a start. When I got home, the first thing I did was to ring up the number.

虽然这还算不上那种真正意义上的‘梦幻工作’，但这毕竟是一个好的开头。那天我回家干的第一件事便是打通那个电话。

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Those who do use them to call colleagues to arrange work meetings, phone and text friends to set up dinner dates and ring home to check in on their babies.

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