[cardcrimson]

Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .

I had one until the mid-1970s when I matriculated to Stanford.  Sometimes you could tell when someone was listening in.

My town (exchange) was so small that we only had to dial the last 4 digits of the phone number.  No area code, no prefix.

When I was in junior high, I started to dial the prefix.  My thinking was that I would eventually have to get used to dialing seven digits when I went to college - so I should get used to it.  I explained this to my sister who was already in college.  She said, "you are an idiot."

Great story. Thanks! 

Our neighbor was an alcoholic (or should I say "person with an alcohol use disorder"), and would continually fall asleep with his phone off the hook. . . .

[cardcrimson]

Anybody here ever have a party line? We had one into the late 70s, early 80s. . . .

I had one until the mid-1970s when I matriculated to Stanford.  Sometimes you could tell when someone was listening in.

My town (exchange) was so small that we only had to dial the last 4 digits of the phone number.  No area code, no prefix.

When I was in junior high, I started to dial the prefix.  My thinking was that I would eventually have to get used to dialing seven digits when I went to college - so I should get used to it.  I explained this to my sister who was already in college.  She said, "you are an idiot."

Great story. Thanks! 

Our neighbor was an alcoholic (or should I say "person with an alcohol use disorder"), and would continually fall asleep with his phone off the hook. . . .