day 269 - a bit of nostalgia

look, a rotary telephone! this is that heavy stuff which if you drop it on your toe, you will be on at least a short term disability. i used to use a pencil or a pen to dial the numbers. there were no 'redial' buttons so if the number you're calling was busy, you just have to re-dial the same number, again and again and again, until you get to memorize the number. so different from what we are used to now. and then there was the thing called "the party line". no, young ones, it's not a party party. hahahaha! in those days you share the line with another number. you get to snoop on your party line or they get to listen in on your conversations. well, in fact it's no different today. you sit on the train and all the people around you are on the phone blabbing as if they're alone, then you get to have the scoop on a lot of people you don't even know.