[Magdalen] Marathon phonecall.

[Kristin Rollins]

Things moved a little slower, I think, with the Canadian phone system (and I am not sure where they are these days), but it boggles my mind that I've gone to where I would use a pay phone for most local calls, because the quarter for it was about a minute's worth of mobile phone airtime, and now live in the US, where we pay $3/mo for the first 100 minutes and there is no surcharge, even if I'm calling from the US to Canada. (Also, I use my phone more as a mobile computing device than for talking to people. I am always way too afraid of interrupting somebody to place a phone call, and I always find that calls to me come at inconvenient times.)

Kristin

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  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Chesapeake, VA

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017, at 9:23 AM, Christopher Hart wrote:
> The concept of long distance calls has essentially disappeared since the
> use of cell phones became ubiquitous. We still have a so-called landline,
> but even that is a VOIP line and calls anywhere are included in our monthly
> package price (bundled with internet and TV). Our grandchildren's
> generation won't even know the meaning of "long distance" call.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > ....and when I think of what my mom and dad thought was “too much” time on
> > the phone back in the ‘60s!
> >
> > Lynn who never had her own “line” as a teenager and remembers well into
> > adulthood that lovely sound when you knew it was long distance and for that
> > one brief millisecond wondered which special far-away relative or friend it
> > was - no caller ID, no answering machines, varying and sometimes huge
> > monthly bills...
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2017, at 11:13 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Everett now must be in his 6th hour on the phone with "an old high school
> > friend".  I've been out of high school for 35+ years.  *I* have "old high
> > school friends".  He's been out for a year-and-a-half.  Oh well.  He seldom
> > to never has such joyous moments, pardon me, hours, as this.  Plus, it's
> > his battery, and we've got unlimited Consumer Cellular minutes.  I bet by
> > now he's got it plugged into the wall.
> >
> > M J (Mike) Logsdon.
> >
> > "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> > "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> >
> 
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> Christopher Hart
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