11-21-2015, 06:16 PM
Onamuji wrote:
[quote=MartyStickle]
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.
I remember first discovering 976 numbers through dial-santa hotlines.
...And dialing every combination of 976-wxyz digits I could calculate that night.
...And my parents never complained about the phone bill. 'Still don't know how I avoided being grounded for life.
Yeah, I don't know how you could have avoided that either, since those things aren't cheap. I'd have no tolerance in my household now... It wouldn't just get chalked up to youthful experimentation or something. Not when it's $3-10 per minute.
I remember making prank calls with friends to random numbers, thinking, "We'll never get caught." Except one time when something really weird happened (the phone rang immediately after we pissed someone off, and there was a strange clicking that wouldn't go away even after we repeatedly hung up the line... I can say we didn't ever get in trouble!