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ack in the day we didn’t have cell phones,


cordless phones or computers. Most homes had one phone hanging on the kitchen wall or sitting on a table in the hall. To make matters worse, there were not enough private lines, so most families were on a party line. It could be a two, three or four party line. Each family


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had a different ring. You could hear it every time the phone rang. Yet you only answered when it was your ring. The phone seemed to ring all the time. Without thinking about it, you would count the rings, every time. My mother stayed home with all of us, including my younger brothers and sisters. There were five of us children under the age of eight, including a newborn (I had an older brother and sister as well). Every afternoon, she would lay down with the


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younger ones. She would finally get everyone to sleep and then the phone would ring. Each time the rang, someone would wake up from their nap crying. Then someone else would hear the crying and wake up crying as well.


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towel so you couldn’t hear the dial tone. There it would stay until naptime was over. Back then, if the phone appeared to be out of order (such as going for a long period of time with only a dial tone) someone would automatically show up: a repairman from the phone company, the local policeman or even someone from the fire department. This happened on a regular basis. Mother would put the phone back on the hook, it would ring again, and naptime was over. Finally, one day someone asked her why she was taking the phone


Even though we only had a


two party line the other person was a chairwoman for one of the political parties. She received a lot of calls. Mother decided she had to do something about this. Every afternoon, when it was time for naptime, she took the phone off the hook and wrapped it in a


off the hook. She explained the situation. I can’t remember whether we ended up with a private line or just another family on our two party line. I only remember the problem was solved. Our phone still rang, but not all the time. Life was like that, ―back in the day,‖ not so long ago. ♥


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