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WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

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Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

ghostdancer wrote:
Lady Strange wrote:
WebGuy wrote:
Back in my day we were on a party line and all the ladies up the line (my mom included) would would listen to each other's gossip and phone conversations. One of these ladies was even open about it enough that she would call people back and ask them what they had told someone else because she couldn't remember all the details.
Seriously on this one too? I can't tell if you're joking.
I think he might really be serious about this LS. We had a party line too, and all the women used to do that. It was the only way they ever had time to talk with each other and keep current on what was going on with all of them.

Of course if you wanted a private phone conversation all you had to do was ask the other people to please hang up and usually they complied. Oh, you also couldn't make a phone call out if a member of the party line was talking to someone else either......you'd either have to wait until they were finished with their conversation or politely ask them if they'd hang up so you could place a call.

I thought that stopped in the 50's.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

ghostdancer wrote:

Lady Strange wrote:

WebGuy wrote:
Back in my day we were on a party line and all the ladies up the line (my mom included) would would listen to each other's gossip and phone conversations. One of these ladies was even open about it enough that she would call people back and ask them what they had told someone else because she couldn't remember all the details.
Seriously on this one too? I can't tell if you're joking.

I think he might really be serious about this LS. We had a party line too, and all the women used to do that. It was the only way they ever had time to talk with each other and keep current on what was going on with all of them.

Of course if you wanted a private phone conversation all you had to do was ask the other people to please hang up and usually they complied. Oh, you also couldn't make a phone call out if a member of the party line was talking to someone else either......you'd either have to wait until they were finished with their conversation or politely ask them if they'd hang up so you could place a call.

Yup, Just a Ghost said, its true.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Lady Strange wrote:

I thought that stopped in the 50's.

No, It was at least until the later 80's before we had a private line.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I was telling Mrs Web about this thread at lunch and she added one: Back in my day, Michael Jackson was black.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Lady Strange wrote:

I thought that stopped in the 50's.

Nope, we had a party line until I was 12 or 13 and that would've been 1972 or '73.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

My grandma had a party line until I was at least 6.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

MzHartz wrote:

My grandma had a party line until I was at least 6.

So that was what . . . like 1992?

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

WebGuy wrote:
Lady Strange wrote:
I thought that stopped in the 50's.
No, It was at least until the later 80's before we had a private line.

WOW! Where did you grow up, Web?

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

On my pappy's farm.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

WebGuy wrote:

MzHartz wrote:

My grandma had a party line until I was at least 6.

So that was what . . . like 1992?

If you were closer, I'd smack you.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

When the phone company began offering private lines, my mom had my dad get one right away because we had a new neighbor move in who would deliberately leave the phone off the hook most of the day and night. I think the rest of the neighbor women did the same thing.

That's another "back in my day" thing. When I was a kid, women did not have bills in their name. Everything was under their husband's name. This of course left the women in a real bind if they ever divorced or their husband died because the women had no credit established anywhere.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Lady Strange wrote:

WOW! Where did you grow up, Web?

Right There:

-- Edited by WebGuy at 14:17, 2008-03-14

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Back in my day, my parents took care of any discipline problems at home and didn't rely on the school system to deal with it.

Ruby · The Good Witch Of The South

This thread is cracking me up! I love you all! smile

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Back in my day it was still safe to play outside after dark.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

Back in my day- streetlights were my curfew

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

ok that was kinda creepy FF! Great minds! smile

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day the National Organization for Women began. I remember seeing women burning their bras on the news.

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

WebGuy wrote:
Lady Strange wrote:
WOW! Where did you grow up, Web?

Right There:

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Woo Hoo wrote:

ok that was kinda creepy FF! Great minds!

It has been a while since that has happened with us! smile

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day The Mod Squad was the hippest show on tv.

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Back in my day, gas was $1.25 a gallon hmm

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

Oooh, speaking of that, I remember when I first started driving and it was under a buck. I think I recall it as low as .92 or something like that. And the first time it went over a buck we were not happy about it.

Back in my day they changed the gas price ONCE A WEEK and it barely fluctuated. It might go up a penny or drop a penny.

Now they change it daily and it can go up .20 at a crack

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

firefly wrote:

Back in my day, gas was $1.25 a gallon

FF, you're such a young 'un!! smile Back in my day when I was 16 or so gas was 58 cents a gallon!!!

-- Edited by ghostdancer at 14:42, 2008-03-14

Jeremy Riggs · Do I look a little pale to you?

Wow Ghost!

You know, they say that gas really isn't that high, we just got spoiled. It never kept up with inflation.

Adjusted for inflation I think they say $3.25 is about right.

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Yeah, I am a baby! biggrin

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I remember when gas got over $1.00 and the gas stations were making cardboard "1"s and sticking them to the signs because the signs only had spaces for two digits.

firefly · Reassuringly Expensive

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Wow Ghost!

You know, they say that gas really isn't that high, we just got spoiled. It never kept up with inflation.

Adjusted for inflation I think they say $3.25 is about right.

They just tell us that crap (sorry Ruby) so we will quiet down and pay what they want us to pay! furious

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Yep I remember that too Web. The first time gas went above 99 cents we thought it was outrageous. And as JR said, the price of gas just didn't flucuate that much like it does today.