-- Calling collect on a payphone
-- Cranking a telephone
-- Dialing a rotary phone
-- Extending the antenna on a cellphone
-- Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange
-- Making an operator assisted phone call
-- Remembering telephone numbers
-- Using a party-line telephone
-- Using a pay telephone
Other favorites:
-- Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
-- Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
-- Counting back change
-- Licking stamps / envelopes
-- Sending a telegram / letter / fax / telex
-- Shorthand
-- Spelling
-- Using a Typewriter
-- Wearing a girdle
-- Getting to know your neighbors
-- Getting up from the couch to change TV channels
-- Handwriting
-- Having your gas pumped for you and your oil checked at a full-service gas station
-- Rolling down the car window