"Florida Man" sums it up.

PuritanSettler1620 consistently trolls with comments about "immorality". They're a pilgrim attention-whore.

Ha, just playing. 857 still better than 774 or 339.

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I’m pretty sure that’s a satire account

Shame.

Lol why not?

Fun fact about the New England Telephone time & temperature number -- you could dial 637 and any four numbers. I remember a friend said to dial NERVOUS (which translated to 637-8687), but eventually I'd always just dial 637-1111 because it was easiest.

I remember when you picked up the receiver and an operator asked you what number you wanted. When I was three I told her I wanted to talk to Grandma, I don’t remember how but she was able to figure out who my grandparents were, in another town, and connected me. The family talked about it for years

Because I don’t want my family killed by you in your shit box whose frame is so rusted out it’s falling apart…or whose brakes and turn signals don’t work.

Sorry it’s an inconvenience - but get your jaloppy of the road. I grew up poor so I get it - and public transit sucks - but so does getting rear ended by a motorist driving a piece of shit with no insurance.

As a fellow old of the same age, I remember all of this as well.

I remember there being 3. It was nice to not have to dial the area code.

What’s wrong with Florida? It’s the number 1 state people are moving to.

Not a problem and thank you!

Sorry, wrong assumption! Rockstar parents!

Rockstar father 😊 she has one for a mother as well!

Yup, good old 617

You’re a rockstar mom. Thing’s definitely aren’t as hard for the younger generations up here. Can’t speak for other states. But at least we’re improving

Please join us in 2023 and leave your Bible at the door.

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Even in the 90s my grandfather's town in North Carolina was mostly party lines and a small switchboard office downtown handled any out of town calls. Most people were used to just picking up the phone, tapping the hook twice until an operator came on, chatting with them for a little while and then eventually asking to be connected to whoever they were calling. The women (of course) who worked there routinely listened in on calls and grandad's (5th) wife would spend most of her mornings in the phone nook gossiping with the operators and neighbors on the same party line, expressing shock at the news in her formal lilting southern debutante voice.

I remember not having to dial an area code. My father worked for NE Telephone. I still have the rotary phone we would use.

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Bonfire Bookshop just opened in Fitchburg

"Criminals are stupid" is a good default.