[lit-ideas] Re: more cell phone spottings
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:31:06 EST
Hey!! I won't ever do without my electric can opener!
Julie Krueger
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JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> When I was a kid (sometime before the dinosaurs reigned) not only did we
> not have cell phones, we did not have cordless phones. We had two
> phones in the house, both corded and immovable; one in the kitchen and
> one in a bedroom. Remember the days of "party lines"? Yes, we were on
> one. Frequently when lifting the phone to place a call we would find
> ourselves privvy to a conversation not meant for our ears, rather than
> a dialtone.
Dialtone? Dialtones didn't reach us until dial phones didâand that was
some time in the 1950s. When I was growing up, one lifted the receiver,
the operator's voice said, 'Number, please,' whereupon one recited the
number one wanted to reach and waited for the operator to make the
connection. I think for a time our number was 122J.
Maybe cell phones will go the way of the electric can opener.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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