if you told them you paid hundreds of dollars for a phone, lol.”
IMO people are indeed crazy for paying hundreds of dollars for a phone. First phone I can remember our having was a crank one on the wall. Twelve party line and our ring was one long and two shorts. Anytime anyone heard a phone ring they picked it up and listened. Guess we had our own version of Facebook but it was literally “on the wall”. Then we had a dial phone with only four parties. All numbers were seven digits and you had to call O for operator to place a long distance call. Remember when the push button first came out. My dad had a fit about the extra numbers on there (the * and the #). Thought they were a waste and would never be used for anything. Having lived through all the changes, my preference is for the portable one with a land line but then I only use a phone as a phone. Probably considered weird in this day and age.
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Poetic justice for the would be thief.
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Poetic justice for the would be thief, and filmed to boot.
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, yeah, we had a party line when I was about toddler-age. Sometimes, for years, we didn’t have a phone at all.
I miss seeing pay-phone booths here and there.
These days I have a landline phone and a $10 cellphone from Tracfone, which I rarely use.
Lots of good times on the old dial phones - wore off a couple numbers on it from repeated dialing to win contests the local rock station would have.