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Does anyone else remember the old wooden box wall phones? It had a hand crank which you turned to make a call by making several long turns or short turns depending on the phone number. It was a party line where several other neighbors were included. You had to listen to the number and lengths of rings to see if the call was for you... if not it was for someone else on the party line. Anyone on the party line could pick up and listen in on any conversation. Remember or am I just old?

We didn't have that kind of phone but did have a party line with my grandparents. We finally got my dad to get rid of the party line because my grandmother would listen in on my conversations.  We broke her of that when my boyfriend at the time and I talked about having sex. We didn't but it broke her of listening in on our conversations  and my mom loved it. She helped me come up with it. Hahahaha