11-21-2015, 04:36 AM
MartyStickle wrote:
Ok now I'll really show my age...I remember when there was NO dial. You picked up the receiver and waited for the women on the other end to say "operator". You gave her (it was always a her) the number and she connected it. Sometimes you didn't even need to know the number; you just said "give me Joe's hardware store" or something like that.
OK, enough nostalgia.
I remember first discovering 976 numbers through dial-santa hotlines.
...And dialing every combination of 976-wxyz digits I could calculate that night.
...90% of which turned out to be pre-recorded sex-messages.
...Which did not mean much to me in infancy. I noted the joke-of-the-day numbers.
...And my parents never complained about the phone bill. 'Still don't know how I avoided being grounded for life.