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Motorola Walkie Talkies

Motorola Walkie Talkies are a great way to have fun and communicate with your partner on long trips, as the writer of this article reports ...

When my husband and I moved from the midwest to the east coast a few years ago, we discovered quickly that we had a problem. We had accumulated so much stuff during our five years in Nebraska that we couldn’t possibly fit it all in a U-haul to drag it halfway across the country, especially since there was the added complexity of also getting our two cars back east as well. We decided that one of us would drive a car, and the other would drive the U-haul with the other car hitched to a tow hookup on the back. And to keep in touch with each other on the trip we bought a set of Motorola walkie talkies to use on the road between our vehicles.

At first the walkie talkies were a safety measure. If something happened to one of us and we needed to pull over, our walkie talkies would be a way to alert the other person to what was going on. The reality of how we used our motorola walkie talkies on the trip was much less pragmatic than simple safety. We used them to entertain ourselves, amuse each other, and have conversations while driving through ridiculously huge states with no good radio stations (Hello, Iowa, I’m talking to you!).

After a few hours I began to see the motorola walkie talkies as a way to give my husband status updates. I told him how the U-Haul looked from behind, I told him about the temperature in the interior of my car, I alerted him to a good song playing on the radio station I was listening to. We also each had a cat in our vehicles with us, so sometimes we would hold the walkie talkie up to the cat carrier to let it talk too. I guess what I’m trying to say is that driving incredibly long miles across the United States with only the cat in the carrier beside you as a companion, is a boring trip. Which is why we were so grateful for our motorola walkie talkies.

We never used our walkie talkies again after completing the move. And I’d forgotten about them until recently when I found them in the basement while preparing for a yard sale. We thought about keeping them because they could come in handy for talking to each other in our four-story house when we’re both on different floors. But we have an intercom system so the Motorola walkie talkies really aren’t necessary. We decided to sell them at our yard sale for five dollars. And every person who looked at them had to listen to me rave about how great Motorola walkie talkies are for long trips, whether that’s what they wanted them for or not.

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