Subj : Losing Out [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jul 11 2023 21:36:44
Hi Dave,
RH> I try to keep things in logical spots but somebody else seems to have a
RH> different logic to himself as to where some things should go. When we
RH> Savannah but haven't in either place in WF.
DD> Of course what logical to one is total madness to another. Bv)=
Very true, and sometimes the "other" trys to re-arrainge to make things
fit their logic. Doesn't always work out harmoniously. (G)
DD> Fortunately I've not had to do that. If I had more cabinet space,
then DD> perhaps.
RH> It helps when you move multiple times, especially after you've spent a
RH> long time in one place. We were in AZ 8 years before going to HI, 5 1/2
RH> in HI before going to GA. Lots of time to become familiar with what was
RH> where. But, I still occaisionally look for something where it was in a
RH> (sometimes several) place(s) past. (G)
DD> I sometimes find myself looking for something I had when I lived in
DD> the tin-can. Then I realise "The black mold gor it".
Understandable. I've looked for things we've not had for years,
sometimes decades.
DD> 8<----- 86ed ----->8
DD> the old desk phone that I kept and find a telephone jack to plug it
DD> in. Then it worked fine .... the telephone company has its own power
DD> source.
RH> And a privatly owned telephone company (where I grew up) has its own
RH> quirks. Wasn't until I was in 4th, maybe 5th grade that they got rid of
RH> the operator except for long distance calls; that took several more
RH> years before we could dial it ourselves.
DD> I think all (or nearly) of the small TelCo operations have been
DD> brought un the ATT (Ma Bell) or ITT (General Telephone) umbrella.
I think when we were in town for my dad's funeral (December, 2017), the
telephone company was still privatly owned.
DD> I remember the first phone of which I was aware. The one phone in
the DD> house hung on the wall, did not have even a rotary dial, and
did have DD> a crank on the side which spun a magneto. I was too short
at the time DD> to be able to use it without standing on a chair. Then
Those are antiques for me.
we got all DD> modern and had a "desk" phone - still sans dial. When
We had one of those too. My folks got an extention phone in their
bedroom when the town went dial.
you picked up DD> the hand set and put it to your ear after a few
seconds you'd hear a DD> nasal query of "Number please". Phones in
those days (after the wooden DD> wall phones) were like Ford motorcars
used to be. Any colour you'd DD> like as long as it was black. Bv)=
Exactly right! And my parent's main dial phone (and first extention)
were black for many decades.
One of our Vacation Bible School curriculums is on Wisdom. The first
unit deals with wisdom calling so the last time we did it, for crafts
the kids made "cell phones". Steve cut out/base painted wooden cell
phone shapes. Kids added a peel and stick keyboard and their memory
verse was put in the screen area.
---
Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28
... A mind stretched by new ideas can never go back to its original size.
--- PPoint 3.01
* Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28)
