On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:13:59 -0500, Jim Redelfs
wrote:

In article ,
Terry wrote:

We were on a party line when I was young. I picked up the phone one
day and a neighbor was ranting to the phone company.

He said........If I can't talk to my mother on Mother's day, you can
just come get this GD phone!

It will be in the front yard when you get here!

Hehehehehe! That almost sounds like some of the customers I have dealt with.

Mother's Day was, and probably still is, the busiest day of the year, long
distance-wise. It was, and may still be, often difficult to get a
direct-dialed call to "go through" on the first attempt on Mother's Day.


I remember making a long-distance call from a party line phone (we had
just gotten direct dialing for long distance. I'd get a busy signal
after just dialing the "1".

You would be surprised to learn the number of folks that call their mother on
Mother's Day - and make the call COLLECT!

Another busy time is just after a popular football game.
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