Life in a small town

she'd seen it all...................

started out part time when she was in high school , continued after high school , got married , had four kids ,

worked part time on and off while we were all little

then when we all got in school , she went back to full time part time up until Dennis was in High School , then back to full time

started out as a switchboard operator , and party lines , was there when they did the huge update to rotary phones , then the big update from when phone numbers went from 5 numbers to 8

push button phones

then in the 80's they became part of the local TV Cable company , so she saw the brand new coming of cable TV and Satellites

then came dial up internet , and the headache that was , not so much with our local provider , but the main provider and it's unreliability , don't know how many times try to get on line and no dial up modem sound

she was there when cell phones started to take over , flip phones with crappy service , wasn't a ton of towers in our area at the time

retired about 10 years ago

they rewired our house here in town a couple years ago , did away with coaxials and old phone lines and put in new fiberoptics

so she's seen it all from switchboard operator to high speed internet

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the phone office was right about half way between our house and the school building , so we'd walk by it every day and bang on the windows on the way home.........lol