That's interesting, I never thought about that. It must've taken a great deal of willpower to not want to know everything about every new person you would talk

That's interesting, I never thought about that. It must've taken a great deal of willpower to not want to know everything about every new person you would talk to on other end of the line. I imagine this would've been my first conversation with a random receptionist that's just trying to patch my call through: "Hello! We are speaking on the telephone! How's the weather over there!?" Following that train of thought, I don't really remember my first time using the telephone, although I'm sure I was yelling the whole time.