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A chair with utterly strange dimensions has baffled over a thousand people who previously didn't know what it was used for. Reddit user DesertDiegel shared a photo of the piece of furniture on the forum r/whatisthisthing, where people post pictures of unknown things they want identified. The user wrote: 'What is this chair thing? Wood, small adult/child size, Found at The Plantation House by Gaylord's (Hawaii).' The chair in the image has what looks to be half a seat, with the other half being some sort of shelf. Redditors were quick to point out that what the original poster had stumbled upon was a telephone bench. More colloquially referred to as a 'gossip bench', this kind of chair allows the user to sit and have the telephone resting on the attached ledge. 'Now I feel really old... I've used one like this my entire childhood and teens. It's a phone desk,' one person wrote. 'I have one! It belonged to my great grandmother and has an extra little shelf for telephone books and notepads,' another person excitedly commented. Most telephone benches were made in the 1920s through the 1950s and were often placed in hallways of people's homes since most families only had one phone back then. As home telephones got smaller and less awkward to use, the need for telephone benches gradually waned. And when cordless telephones were invented in the 1980s, the gossip could literally be taken anywhere, making the furniture completely obsolete. However, many telephone benches are now considered antique collectors items. One made in the 1930s is being sold on Etsy for $1,195, as one Redditor pointed out. 'That price! Guess I shouldn't have dumped mine at a yard sale years ago,' someone reacted.
