[sparklite2]

wait for the gasp from HER and all the others..then the ‘click’...

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There was this beer joint I frequented with my parents (kids did that then) that had a phone on the bar that had no dial on it; it was incoming calls only.

The pay phone in the back was for calling out, but someone figured out that dial phones transmitted a number of clicks based on the number you dialed. A seven, for example, had seven clicks which set a stepper relay at the phone company to that number.

So we would tap the receiver cradle on the dial-less phone to generate the numbers we wanted, and called out for free.

I don’t think we ever got caught.

[xrmusn]

Hmm...remember being told that if ‘your’ mind was used for good instead of evil how much better off you would be.
Of course, it wasn’t as much fun.

Even before cell phones, if the barkeep wasn’t ‘paying attention’ I would call from the pay phone by the bar (great idea ONLY if you don’t mind people think you are ‘wasting’ your time at a bar) and order a drink...

Everyone likes a ‘little arse’ no one likes a ‘smart arse’.