3acresandatruck:
…I remember one customer who was particularly thrilled when I told her colors were now available at no extra charge. Colors? Do you remember some of the odd colors the Bell System had? She made me describe each color to her over the phone, since we had nowhere a customer could actually *see *anything. Then, some of our customers discovered that you could request a single phone in multiple colors and we didn’t charge extra for that…
This does explain why my grandmother had so many phones in her house (in every room except the bathroom); all in different colors. Like hot pink, red, blue, orange, green, purple. After she died and my grandfather moved out we found even more old phones in her attack.
Worth noting that despite the massively changed attitudes to divorce and remarriage in Britain from the 30’s to now, Charles and Camilla did not get married in church - they married in a civil ceremony in Windsor Guildhall. When Princess Anne remarried after her divorce from Mark (“Foggy”) Phillips she did marry in church but it had to be in Scotland at Crathie Church near Balmoral - the (presbyterian) Church of Scotland’s attitude to divorce is different to that of the Church of England.
Rich_Mann:
…Apparently my exchange prefix is also the area code for somewhere in Pennsylvania. If you have the same area code as me and you dial the number for a certain hospital in PA…“Oh, hello, it’s you again. Well it’s me again, too. Still the wrong number. Still have to dial 1 first. No, I can’t connect you to uncle steve’s room…”
Ya know, you could played some really cruel practical jokes on people.
Were you ever temped?