If you didn’t live in the time of party lines you could never understand. My dad would get on the phone and tell them to get off. The people on our line were on it 24/7.
Ah yes. There were those. But you could dial 0 and get a real person to find numbers for you and put through calls and could reverse charges to your parents when you were in college. And there were pay phones.
My dad was too cheap for that. They had the pay phone number of the one on my floor. I’d call collect and they denied it then called me. My favorite thing was calling the time and temperature.
I remember those days. I'd give them 20 min from the time I first picked up, then say in a clear voice, "you have 5 minutes". In 5 min, I'd take the phone off the hook, and if they were still on, I'd put the phone on the floor, and play with the buttons with my feet, as I watched tv. Didn't take long for 'them' to catch my drift after that.
If you didn’t live in the time of party lines you could never understand. My dad would get on the phone and tell them to get off. The people on our line were on it 24/7.
Ah yes. There were those. But you could dial 0 and get a real person to find numbers for you and put through calls and could reverse charges to your parents when you were in college. And there were pay phones.
My dad was too cheap for that. They had the pay phone number of the one on my floor. I’d call collect and they denied it then called me. My favorite thing was calling the time and temperature.
"At the tone the time will be..." 😺
It's 10:00. Do you know where your children are?
I remember those days. I'd give them 20 min from the time I first picked up, then say in a clear voice, "you have 5 minutes". In 5 min, I'd take the phone off the hook, and if they were still on, I'd put the phone on the floor, and play with the buttons with my feet, as I watched tv. Didn't take long for 'them' to catch my drift after that.