Posted on 11/12/2017 5:58:04 AM PST by vladimir998
I’ve been thinking the same questions...
Wonder if she deposited a check from the WaPo in her checking account recently?
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You can be sure the Compost IOU payoff will come later, not at this point.
My dad had a construction business so we had two lines to both our kitchen and my dad's office. All four phones had long coiling cords going from the base unit to the handsets of the phones so you could walk around while you were talking to someone.
I am not sure exactly how long they really were; if we stretched them very far we got yelled a. The cords didn't have jacks at the handset or the base part of the phone. When the wires in the cords broke they had to be replaced by someone who knew how to fix a phone.
Back then the phones belonged to the phone company which meant a phone company repairman came to your house to fix the phone and that was not free and it could take a couple of days. I remember how amazing it seemed when cheap import phones started becoming available that you could own yourself, but they were garbage compared to the phones from the phone company. Those old phones had very good quality compared to modern phones.
But anyway back to your point... you could make it from the kitchen to the dining room, or from my dad's office to the TV room, but neither would reach to any of our bedrooms. Even if they did, we would not have referred to them as the “phone in our bedroom” which not even my parents had. We had the office phones and the kitchen phones. So I after reading the article it still seems to me that the woman's mother has contradicted her.
Three siblings in one bedroom ?
Today that would be considered child abuse by leftards...
Today, if a woman decides that holding her hand 20 years ago has now made her "nervous" a man will get five years in jail.
Up until the early 80s (IIRC) the phone company owned the phone. If you wanted one of the fancy slim line phones you had to pay extra and you paid for each additional phone.
When phones started to be sold in stores it became a battle between the people and the phone companies. They could run a test on your line and find out if you had more than one phone connected via a resistance check. When the companies finally allowed people to attach their own phones you were supposed to tell them certain numbers on the bottom of the phone so they knew what resistance to look for if they ever checked your line and they still charged more for each phone you used. I can't remember when the phone companies finally gave up and just charged you for the service and not add on for the number of phones.
Correct. We were special because my Dad bought the house from a guy who worked at the phone company. He left behind wire and all sorts of parts in the garage. I learned it wasn't that hard to wire a phone, so we were special and had three. By the time my parents "discovered" the third phone (maybe about two weeks after I wired it . . . you know how parents were back then), I was a senior in high school and they were cool with it.
My sister was then in college and it was only I, my one year younger brother and the 10 year old baby brother of the family, who had no interest in phone or girls at that point. Long story short is that my parents were totally cool with it. And it was like that episode of Leave It to Beaver where Dad discover Wally and Beaver raised a baby alligator in their bathroom upstairs. Remember that one?
NEVER trust a leftist to owe you money. You will never see a dime.
If the WaPO promised a nice sum IF Judge Moore loses they will never make good on that promise even if he does lose.
Never trust the word of a liberal.
Thanks for the reminder. This might have been how my parents discovered the third phone in post #47. Do you remember the long distance charges back then, too? No wonder we only called out of town relatives on very special occasions?
Unless your dad had performed his own resistance check and knew what each known phone was supposed to be, or the phone company did a check for some reason, I doubt it.
Back then, from what I remember, the phone companies didn't have the resources to check resistance on every line. I had to be done intentionally on each line and I do not know if they did random checks or not or whether they may have had some ancient, semiautomatic equipment that could do it without human intervention. I do know that I bought my parents house in 1981 and wired phones lines myself and bought extra phones. At that time the phone company charged for each phone but they never contacted my about the four phones in my house.
As far as long distance calls, I do not think my parents made more than ten or twenty per year because it was so expensive. They would call our nearby relatives to plan the annual Thanksgiving and Christmas family parties, but not much else.
For starters, parents knew each of their children very well. Two weeks vacation in the summer was standard, not rare. We went on road trips regularly to visit relatives. Parents EXPECTED their children to do a lot of household chores and held them accountable if they did not. It was a very different world than today.
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