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[BIGBOB62]

I’m old enough to have grown up in a neighborhood with a party line. For under 55 people that means our phone line was shared amongst all the families in the neighborhood. Push the ring button once for the operator, 2 times for the smiths, 3 times for the Jones and so on. Moms pushed the ring number for their own house at dinner and it rang in every other house. If you were there at another house their mom sent you home. If you left the neighborhood, you were dead meat.

 

[charliebrown]

That sounds horrible. I was late plenty of times. A kid loses track of time.

It taught me responsibility and time management at a very young age.

Started working at ten to fill the wallet. One night I knew I was going to be late. Could not help it because I was just having too much fun. On the way home, I buy myself a nice juicy large cheese steak from a deli and carry it home for my dinner. I am five minutes late for dinner and my wonderful siblings are smiling at me because they got my share of hamburger helper. I smile back and open up the package at the dinner table and all of their mouths drop to the floor. My mother turned beat red and my father up out his hand and said give me five young man. You knew there was a problem and you solved it in a fashion I can totally respect.

I at that sandwich about 50 years ago and remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[charliebrown]

Oh, in reading this post, it brings back memories of my SO limiting sex. Hey, you all know what we did to solve that problem. I just never brought it home to eat it in front of her!

 

[oldhorndog53]

My mother simply used to go outside on the front steps and blow a whistle when we had to come home for dinner...

My mother had a brass school bell that she rang to summon us for dinner and the dreaded piano lessons.

 

[NYguy70]

My mother had a brass school bell that she rang to summon us for dinner and the dreaded piano lessons.

That’s what Sister Mary used to do to summon us in from recess in the schoolyard!

 

[Doubleyellow]

I’m old enough to have grown up in a neighborhood with a party line. For under 55 people that means our phone line was shared amongst all the families in the neighborhood. Push the ring button once for the operator, 2 times for the smiths, 3 times for the Jones and so on. Moms pushed the ring number for their own house at dinner and it rang in every other house. If you were there at another house their mom sent you home. If you left the neighborhood, you were dead meat.

The best part about party lines was when you could listen in on others, it satisfied some prehistoric need to know who was up to what.

 

[BIGBOB62]

The best part about party lines was when you could listen in on others, it satisfied some prehistoric need to know who was up to what.

Hard to imagine how mongers made appointments back then with no cell and no privacy on house phones. It must have been all walk in back then.

 

[so.pacifico]

If you have an android, use fake GPS, it let's you broadcast any location you want.

 

[AutomaticSlim]

Hard to imagine how mongers made appointments back then with no cell and no privacy on house phones. It must have been all walk in back then.

At incall joints in the 90s (American, not AMPs) they all used passwords.
First time you came in they would have security frisk you, then ask you if you are le.
And if the girl said you weren't a creep after the session they would give you a password to associate with your name.
611 (let's see how many guys here remember that brothel) had a progression of passwords. For "newbies" it was Atari.
Jane's Place/Madame Ruby's (the best brothel in town back then, imo) let you pick your own password.

 

[Doubleyellow]

Hard to imagine how mongers made appointments back then with no cell and no privacy on house phones. It must have been all walk in back then.

You made your next appointment as you exited, or took a chance and walked in.

On a party line, If you wanted to spread a rumor you could make something up about a neighbor and sneak it in in a very subtle way, which added to it's believability, and everyone listening in would run with it!

 

[mccovey]

Also there was no caller ID back then so I didn’t give a fuck who I called EVER . It was great . I yearn for the days before caller ID , cellphones , tracking devices , shared phones , etc …

 

[BIGBOB62]

Also there was no caller ID back then so I didn’t give a fuck who I called EVER . It was great . I yearn for the days before caller ID , cellphones , tracking devices , shared phones , etc …

I think if I had a family - I'd probably resist the savings of a family plan, put the wife and kids on att while i stuck to verizon and call it a redundancy plan for bad coverage areas. then convert my verizon bill to email to an account my wife had no access to, and then just autopay it. Not that it solves the OP's original question, but elimnates the accidental call or text to the spa on a phone bill my wife can see. My advice to the OP would be to just keep losing track of your phone, like leave it in the office (a lot, not just spa nights) and get a burner.