“Did you ever use the automated collect call system to leave a message for your parents? for example your parents got a call that went like this: “you have a collect call from (pickmeupatthemall). will you accept the charges?” and then your parents would hang up and then go pick you up at the mall. “
Never did that one but we did have a code worked out for when us kids were leaving home and traveling we’d call home collect using a historical name play like Abel Lincoln or Georgio Washington to let the parents know we’d arrived safe.
“Never did that one but we did have a code worked out for when us kids were leaving home and traveling we’d call home collect using a historical name play like Abel Lincoln or Georgio Washington to let the parents know we’d arrived safe.
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We used person-to-person giving our own name and of course we weren’t home to take the call.. That was our “arrived safely” contact.
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