Ring Ring!!!

Probably looking for "Coconuts" @ Casa Ybel. 😉

Had a phone call verrrrry early one morning asking if the buses would be running that day.

Turned out my number, when moved to a different area code, was a school district transportation office. Apparently they had some very miserable winter weather that morning.

There are 30kå± people living in this 960 sqmi county and we have 8 different in county landline systems and two that come across the state boundary with Louisiana and one with Arkansas and it is long distance from everywhere in the world to call one of them.
The entire phone book is 3/8 inch thick, including yellow pages and at least 5 different ones come to my house twice a year.

A Harris, post: 412918, member: 81 wrote: There are 30kå± people living in this 960 sqmi county and we have 8 different in county landline systems and two that come across the state boundary with Louisiana and one with Arkansas and it is long distance from everywhere in the world to call one of them.
The entire phone book is 3/8 inch thick, including yellow pages and at least 5 different ones come to my house twice a year.

I thought charges for long distance phone calls were a thing of the past.

yeah, what's "long distance" these days?? makes me think of high school. we were on the edge of the area code, from 312 to 815. The high school five miles away was long distance. So we used the "Pay Phone" at school to let the parents know when we needed to get picked up after sports. They knew not to "accept the charges". all these phrases seem so archaic these days. I miss being incommunicado

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

I heard I was in town.

Station to station collect. The English called it an ordinary trunk call.

Andy J, post: 412929, member: 44 wrote: yeah, what's "long distance" these days?? makes me think of high school. we were on the edge of the area code, from 312 to 815. The high school five miles away was long distance. So we used the "Pay Phone" at school to let the parents know when we needed to get picked up after sports. They knew not to "accept the charges". all these phrases seem so archaic these days. I miss being incommunicado

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

I heard I was in town.

Some places with small Mom & Pop phone companies still have long distance which can be very expensive. Better to use a cell phone if there is service.

The sentence "where are you?" Is relatively new in our world. Not very long ago, if you were talking to someone, you knew where they were.

Jon Collins, post: 412936, member: 11135 wrote: The sentence "where are you?" Is relatively new in our world. Not very long ago, if you were talking to someone, you knew where they were.

What ticks me off is the reply: "I'm here".

My wife still has a flip phone and refuses any phone that would text or have a data plan. Her message on her voice mail is
"I'm not here, please leave a message".

I think it is better than the answering machine at home that has "This is Susan, Who are you and what do you want?"

James

JaRo, post: 412959, member: 292 wrote:
I think it is better than the answering machine at home that has "This is Susan, Who are you and what do you want?"

Or the one that goes...

WHO? Oh Yeah, I remember you. I dont want to talk to you any more

Jon Collins, post: 412936, member: 11135 wrote: The sentence "where are you?" Is relatively new in our world

SWMBO called me the other day on the office land-line & asked me where I was.

"Shhhhh, I'm in the woods... Watching a humungous buck! My gawd, his butt must be 4 feet wide! If you leave a message, I might call you back, and maybe I won't!"

Sergeant Schultz, post: 413062, member: 315 wrote: SWMBO called me the other day on the office land-line & asked me where I was.

I hate to admit it but in "unfamiliar" territory I have had to press the "Where (in hell) am I" button on the gps do-dad thingy built into the car.
Of course, nearly every major road in Florida is perpetually "under construction" so a gps navigation unit is practically useless anyway. 😉

"Recalculating..............."

Andy J, post: 412929, member: 44 wrote: yeah, what's "long distance" these days??

My local land line calling area is only about 5 miles. Everything else is long distance. And that is Frontier which I believe is a pretty good sized provider.

Haha...I just got a call this morning on the office phone was asked if I still work here. (I gave him a hard time, but in all fairness he didn't know for sure if he had called my cell or my office number)

So many have moved a land line number to a cell phone number that you can't really guess anymore.

"Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?" - Ernestine