Yep, I remember when we were on a party line, so each person had a particular number of rings; number of short rings and number of long rings. Of course I was at an age in which I was not allowed to touch the phone.:laughing: And one day my Mother was on the phone with a friend when the nearest neighbor, down the road a ways, picked up the phone and asked her to get off the phone because he had an emergency. Of course, she promptly hung up. But she said he got to wondering if he or his wife might be sick or injured and need help, so she picked up the phone, only to hear him telling a friend about the new calf he had born last night.:laughing: I think that was about as mad as I ever saw my Mother.:laughing: