Sunday, September 1, 2019

A double special day

When I absolutely can't think of anything else to write about, I chack out the special days of the month.  You can do this on Google.  Today you get two.  First, today is "Emma M. Nutt Day." Who, you may ask is Emma M. Nutt?  According to Google she was the first woman telephone operator,  She went on to record all those canned messages "to speak to an agent dial 1." Not really, I just made up that last part.  My family moved to the small town of Woodburn when I was eight years old and for the first year that we lived there the Woodburn telephone system still had the 'box on the wall' phones and a real live telephone operator who would connect you to your desired party when you spun the handle and spoke into the mouth piece.  Of course it was all party lines so there could be any number of people listening in to your evenual conversation.  our 'ring' was two longs and a short.  
Today is also "National Cherry Popover Day," a much tastier option in my opinion.  So while you munch on a Cherry Popover, consider this.  If you understood anything that I was talking about in the first paragraph, you are probably as old as me.  

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