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"Got twenty years safe driving never getting in a vehicle." Best inside story I've heard in years! Typical of the fools we once worked for.
It beats my "All these gloves are left-handed" story, that's for sure.
In the future, due to the outcry for more fantastic phone stories, I will be persuaded to tell you about:
Hawaiian Music Option
Ad Hoc color codes
Why are you wearing sneakers?
Pay checks at the top of the poles
The dead cat
The dead dog
The dead man
Willy Vasquez and the dog in the junk yard
The twisted manhole cover
Why my nickname is "Bloomo"
The cop, the long cord and the handgun
The Case of the Beeping Noise
The fire dept and the power supply
The air raid siren and the drug dealers
Mr. Horn, the sleeping sub, the open window and the broken leg.
The Rabbi, the 6040 key, and the (not so) cryptic note.
The doctor, the interrupted Christmas party, the bowl of cocaine, and the loose wire.
The gangsta, the ComKey, and the loot.
The Homestead Bar & Grill
The yellow trimline, the piano and the CF53.
The reference battery and a free lunch.
Getting rehired after the layoffs.
Why Joey and the other guy are now friends.
Getting in trouble for selling.
The accountant and the dead ringers.
Arthur P. Bloom
"30 years of faithful service...15 years on hold"
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Just start at the top Arthur. You have my curiosity piqued now!
-Hal
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Some comments made by me are known to the State of California to cause irreversible brain damage and serious mental disorders leading to confinement.
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"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"
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Wow, I thought I was the only survivor of the crossbar switch era! I worked as the phone man for a college in Buffalo NY during the days of Ma Bell and pumped 36 COs to 900 extentions through PBX's and 1A2. I won't have as deep a story bank as Arthur's though as I was an "inside" man and while I worked in some man holes I have never climbed a pole. It's over to you Arthur!
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The college wasnt Conecious College or something like that, was it
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I recall a story about a small dog and a toolbox...
Jeff Moss
Moss Communications
Computer Repair-Networking-Cabling
MBSWWYPBX, JGAE
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Pay checks at the top of the pole. Done that one
Why my nickname is "Bloomo". Got a pretty good guess
As others have said, it's story time. Why not make a new topic for each one and we'll pin a "Story time" topic with any and everyone's 1A-2 stories.
Retired phone dude
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The small dog in the toolbox was mine - though it's possible Arthur knows the same story. It's also possible it's apocrvaphyl.
Sam
"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"
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it goes with any incident , one was always wearing our hardhat ,safety glasses , gloves when asked to see what we had, sorry to see Mother go. many stories of Ma Bells retirement parties,and goodness
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The wife is away, visiting the daughter. The son is upstate doing his thing. The stepson and wife and cute little kid are home in NC. I am alone and have had a couple of drinks by myself. I am sad and lonely. No one has asked any 1A2 questions in months. Are you really going to allow an old man whose brain is packed with (useless) 1A2 information to just fade away, without passing on the joys of key systems? Arthur, whenever you feel sad and lonely, just let me know... I can cure it in three ways at least: 1) Share that drink with you on one of the lines of my 1A2 telephone system, calls to the US are really cheap. 2) Ask you to ship some more boxes from US eBay sellers to Germany (at least you’ll talk to ladies at the Post Office) 3) Start some crazy expansion project for my 1A2 system, where your knowledge will be for sure required (my 551C works perfect now which makes me reluctant to make any changes there, but I have two 584C panels standing still in stock which I want one day to convert to a bigger system for the house, than the shoebox. My 18-button Call Director is waiting to have more lines in it alive than poor 4 lines out of 551C KSU. I have 2 PBX in idle mode now capable to provide 30+ analog extensions each vs. current small PBX with 4 analog extensions sufficient for 551C. So many things to do. I don’t understand how you can be sad and lonely... P.S. I have three fantastic WE 2872A2M Touch-A-Matic waiting for repair, refurbishment and restoration. This is just the time needed to bring all this 1A2 fleet to bright and shiny condition.
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