We had a party line, with other neighbors on the same line.
Eventually, the others got private numbers.
We were the last ones on the party line, which was cheaper than a private number.
Took Ma Bell years to figure that out.
Yes we all had party lines too & anything you said over the phone would be told back to you by somebody else in very short time.
Mollie Verified account @MZHemingway 6h6 hours ago
CNN essentially admits there is a Deep State in the DOJ/FBI trying to “rein in” Trump and to keep him in check, led by Rosentein and in the past by McCabe too. CNN also says talks of controlling Trump predated the firing of Comey.
When I was a little kid, I got in trouble for eavesdropping on other people’s conversations, and my mom caught me calling the operator just to talk. I remember the operator telling me she needed to work and I needed to hang up and go play.