Here’s an item I don’t need anymore but am not sure how to find a new home for it. My dial Snoopy phone.<\/p>\n
The story behind this phone should be amusing.\u00a0 I was nineteen.\u00a0 Living in a three-room cabin in Western Massachusetts with no indoor plumbing, no running water, electricity, and coal heat.\u00a0 Since I was so far from civilization, I needed a phone in case of trouble.\u00a0 So. Making minimum wage, I bought a phone.\u00a0 I could have gotten a Touch Tone phone, but I didn’t want to pay the extra dollar or so a month line charge on my phone bill, so dial it was.\u00a0 This was back in the day when you owned the outer part of the phone, but the phone company still owned the guts (it’s imprinted on the bottom of the phone — really).\u00a0 Those days are all behind us now, but that’s an interesting bit a trivia.<\/p>\n
So, even though I hauled a porta potty to work every Friday to dump in the bathroom after work, I had a fancy, schmantzy telephone.\u00a0 I hauled fifty-pound bags of coal to heat the main room of the cabin (as I recall, it took about 300 pounds a week to heat the place). This was at the time of my life when I thought living in a remote cabin in the woods would be romantic.\u00a0 I moved into this place in December.\u00a0 Moved out in March.\u00a0 Three months of roughing it was just too exciting for me and completely pegged my fun meter.\u00a0 I’ve had zero desire to do that again.\u00a0 I have, however, laughed about it, as I told myself I would at the time.<\/p>\n
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