Anyone a bit younger remember party lines ? its where you had to share the phone line with someone else and when they were using it you couldn,t , god knows what would have happened in an emergency ,and it seems everytime i wanted to phone my friends the woman down the road was always on the phone for hours at a time which as a young sprog used to wind me up so in the end i used to tell her in no uncertain terms to hurry up and put the phone down , which she never did she just then left the phone off the hook so we couldn,t use it all resulting in my dad having to go down the road to sort it out and me getting a clip , aaaahhhh the good old days !