So Many Extensions We Have Today
Anyone remember when having just one telephone in a house was normal? It was usually in the front hall, and in some homes was in a special nook designed for the purpose. Of course this meant when telephone calls came at off hours (which back in the old days wasn anytime after 8PM, the whole household would gather around the the phone to see "who could be calling" at this hour. Late night calls always seemed to me to be about bad news; someone very ill, or dying, or had passed. Someone was in the hospital or in an accident, you know. Of course late night calls could be good news as well, like someone having a baby, or just arrived home from serving overseas in the military.
Extensions weren't cheap, therefore it was really grand living to have say a telephone in the kitchen, front hall/parlour and perhaps the master bedroom.
Remember once whilst watching the a telephone repair man fix a phone in our kitchen as a child, saw him call in to make the phone ring back. He told me the dial code and what fun I had! Well until I got found out, that is; got grounded, nearly a whippin, and that was the end of that. *LOL*
