RE: A Funny Story from the Over 30 crowd
When the phone rang you didn't even know if it was for you until you heard the complete ring cycle as you were on a party line.
Shoot, didn't matter if it was for you or not. Everybody listened. No such thing as a "private" line. And there were ten parties (phones) per line. Our ring was two short, one long.
If you had an emergency, you said so, and everyone hung up, until they heard you "ring in" to the operator, and then they listened !
And we had no Harley to kickstart! But we did have a gas, foot start Maytag washing machine! With a Fairbanks Morse Magneto!!!
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