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.
I miss seeing pay-phone booths here and there.”
Me, too. Used to have a pager and a change tray full of quarters in the car. Imagine if we had them now they would all be trashed and robbed on a regular basis. Think it’s amazing that so many people grew up without any phone at all and did just fine. Of course that was back in the dark ages when penny post cards were actually $.01, and no one would ever dream of expecting taxpayers to pay for their Obama phone.