Michigan still has three operating one room schoolhouses in 2018. One of them is in Bangor, MI which is sort of near where I live. They have about 30 students ranging in ages Kindergarten through eighth grade, all of whom are taught by 2 teachers. I’m amazed at what they do with those kids there with the few resources they have.
Kids these days have no idea what the previous line even means. 
I remember there was an episode of Emergency! in which one of the cases was, indeed, a guy who’d swallowed a pull-tab, and had gotten it lodged in his throat.
Memory confirmed, or at the very least we are suffering from the same mis-recollection. 
Happened to me once but fortunately there was booze in the blender.
Had some extra sandals too.
Well, if it take the keeper 2 minutes to close both gates then 2 minutes more to open them again and it happens at the same interval during all daylight hours, then the odds are roughly 1 in 4 that any given minute the picture is taken would include the keeper in action. I’ll let you adjust the variables accordingly.
I found it. Season 5, Episode 3, “Election,” first aired 9/27/75. As per the summary description on Wikipedia:
In scanning through the episode descriptions, I’m struck by the number of cases of:
- rescuing someone who got their hand / arm stuck in something
- helping someone who became high or poisoned by ingesting something they didn’t realize was harmful
I can think of one at Marston Lane (yup near where the battle of Marston Moor took place)
Theres another just up the same line a couple of milesThe list of countries with current lighthouse keepers is interesting. Several are listed as to when the last manned lighthouse was converted to automatic. Italy apparently still has quite a few.
The US no longer has any but Canada does. It esp. wants to keep the one on Machias Seal Island manned to maintain it’s sovereignty claim. It’s both manned and automatic.
“Hey guys, time to helicopter out to a godforsaken island for your fun 4 weeks of doing nothing. Let us know if the Yanks invade.”
Ahem. In most of those hypothetical minutes you would not see a keeper caught in the act. You would see the back of the (stationary) car in front; or (if you were lucky) a keeper being run over by a google van with a camera on its roof.
Variables adjusted? 
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LOL that’s not just a similar one, it’s the same one. I mean not my station, but that was my line. Seemed like it had 5-10 stations like that one. Hokkaido is crazy rural but it seems like no town is too small for a train stop.
Just this morning, somebody handed me a phone book which was delivered to her home. At one time (barely over a decade ago!) my family delivered more than 40,000,000 of the things a year, this is the first new one I’ve seen since… 2016, I think.
Also from Japan: fax machines everywhere.
This wonderful movie said there were still about 200 one-room public schoolhouses in the U.S. as of 2010 or thereabouts. Most of them were in Native American or Alaskan communities, and others were in the extreme rural west. Warning: because one interviewee talks about “an older boy who was a bully” who sexually assaulted classmates at knifepoint, probably including him, it is not for young children.
http://www.countryschoolmovie.com/
Back then, they had things like “School of the Air”, on radio and later TV, and now they can get almost anything online.
I delivered them in 2012 (some households flat out said they didn’t want them, so I didn’t give them any; one woman, however, wanted a spare for her car) and I still get one. I use it just enough to justify doing so, even if it is in teeny-tiny type.
This isn’t on the scale of some of the things listed above, but my current doctor’s office has paper-only patient records and calendaring. I went in to check when my next appointment was and the receptionist had to pull out a big 3-ring binder and start leafing through it.
Where did you deliver them? There is a non-zero chance you worked for me or my family’s business. PM me if you don’t want that info in the open, I won’t be offended if you don’t want me to know at all.
Last time I saw someone whip out a phone book it raised literally all the eyebrows in the room.
All this talk of phone books remind me of the day in 1979 that they were delivered to my house. Oddly, the guy rang the doorbell and handed it to me, perhaps to hear the inevitable line. (It was the same week as the movie release.)