Yes, I remember that unwinding process with the phone cord. I still
have one real, wired-into-the-wall telephone and will keep on keeping it
as the wireless ones don't work when the power is out. But these days
everyone has cell phones, so perhaps that's not a problem.
These little tidbits about phones and fins and feathers are rounding out
my pictures of all of you. I've occasionally thought it would be nice
to go around and do introductions, but then...I kind of like this slow
peeling and adding and guessing and nodding.
Canadian turkeys come and go in October. Mine doesn't get more than
five minutes of rest (we usually have a smallish gathering -- easier to
hustle and herd into the dining room).
Last month I actually counted how many turkeys I've roasted in my
life...frightening.
Only thing worse was the time I figured out how many diapers I'd
probably changed in my life (and I only have two kids...)
Ursula
Listening to The Teaching Company wafting from the other room (History
of public intellectuals -- death of the Philosophes)
Paul Stone wrote:
TF:1. Did you miss the 'phone before you had one?>>
JK:I missed not having a walk-about phone. I remember thinking how cool it would be if someone figured out a way to make a phone that didn't have to be latched to the wall with the cord.
I thought one of the funniest things in Napolean Dynamite was his EXTRA long phone cord. Thousands of kitchens in the seventies had these. Ours made it three rooms over. After a week's worth of hangups and answers, playing with the cord, spinning around, etc. the cord was wound up like an elastic on a balsa wood airplane. Then you'd have to pull it out in successive lengths and let the receive spin itself back to virtually straight. Then put the 10 foot cord back down the wall behind the dishwasher.
Those were the days my friend.
p
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