"Real" Telephones

Flint · 08-13-2006, 01:29 PM

When my siblings and I were children, visiting our relatives in the country, we found an old-timey telephone in the ruins of an old dilapidated house, falling down out in the middle of the pasture. I don't know who really found it first, but a dispute developed between the two oldest and strongest-willed cousins about who would get to keep it.

My uncle settled this dispute thusly: first he confiscated the telephone, then he loaded us into the back of his pickup and drove us out into the middle of a field, where he proceeded to blow up the telephone with half a stick of dynamite. No phone, no dispute. (Although I learned recently that they did continue fighting - over the bell.)

08-13-2006, 01:29 PM	#2
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	When my siblings and I were children, visiting our relatives in the country, we found an old-timey telephone in the ruins of an old dilapidated house, falling down out in the middle of the pasture. I don't know who really found it first, but a dispute developed between the two oldest and strongest-willed cousins about who would get to keep it. My uncle settled this dispute thusly: first he confiscated the telephone, then he loaded us into the back of his pickup and drove us out into the middle of a field, where he proceeded to blow up the telephone with half a stick of dynamite. No phone, no dispute. (Although I learned recently that they did continue fighting - over the bell.) __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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