“Back in the day when there was party lines my aunt used to pick up and listen to whoever was talking to someone else. She would wind up coughing and give away she was listening so she would join the conversation.”
— For those too young to remember ‘party lines,’ a party line was a system where several telephone subscribers were connected to the same land line. In order to determine who was supposed to receive a call you had to be attentive to the ringing pattern assigned to your household. DUO discontinued party lines in 1984.
