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Who remembers the ol' collect-call-to-yourself as a sign you made it home OK? I remember my family, when I was little, was mindful of the cost of phone calls t
by e40 5y ago
Who remembers the ol' collect-call-to-yourself as a sign you made it home OK? I remember my family, when I was little, was mindful of the cost of phone calls to an extent that we used this trick a few times.
- ghaff 5y agoOr person to person calls which indicated that the other (refusing) party could call you back with direct dial much less (relatively) expensively. Also traded cassette tapes with parents in college.
- throwawayboise 5y agoYep I remember my mother sending tapes back and forth to her mother and her sister who both lived in Europe. Small open-reel tapes, not cassettes. They later started doing voice calls once a month or so, when the costs had dropped some (or their income had gone up -- maybe both). Lots of letter writing also, on very thin paper to reduce weight and postage costs.
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