Seniors Are The Best

Nuf said.

ROFLMAO!

Couldn have been our house. One of the meds that I take really gassed me up last night.

Years ago I had a phone repair in a veterans home that I used to hit regularly. I'm in the basement at the netpop, disconnect the line from 3 station cables, it clears. I put the cables back on one at a time, find the cable that is shorting the line, leave it off. Somewhere in the building, I'm going to find a dead phone, so I go upstairs walk around checking phones. An elderly man, resident, comes up and asks if I can get his money back from a payphone. I politely explain that I have nothing to do with payphones and continue on in my search. I run into the gentleman a couple of more times, he asks me again to help him get his money back from a payphone. In a hallway in one of the wings, I run into a courtesy wall phone for the staff to use, just a WC like in your every day kitchen, it has my number on it, I pick up the reciever, its dead. I found my phone. I take it off of the wall, and I hear jingling from inside. I open it up, there's a bunch of change, nickles, dimes, quarters in it shorting it out. That same elderly gentleman comes up tuging at my sleave and asks me if he can have his change back. I'm laughing my butt off by then. The little slits in the base between the plastic cover, the poor fella's been shoving coins in so he can make an outside call from a restricted phone.

One day, if all goes well, we will all be happy in the best of ways, I hope.

Mark

That's a new on on me, and I worked repair for 13 years. I did have a SC in a home one time, disconnected the offending IW and went hunting for the offending set. I climbed all the way to the third floor with no success and found a designer set on a chair, and it was dead. When I picked the set up, a few ounces of water drained out of it. The lady promptly hollered out, "AMY!!!" This really cute little blonde in pigtails poked her face around the corner, and said, "Yes, Mommy?" "Why is this thing wet?" In a most innocent face, and totally sincere, she answered, "The telephone was thirsty and I gave it a drink of water." And that was just one of many....

Ah, you old phone men. I never worked for the telephone company but I did work closely with some of those guys. For the most part they were a lot of fun. Sometimes they needed a little prodding.

"There's a dead phone man in my yard!"

"How do you know it's a phone man?"

"Well, he's got a cuppa coffee in his hand and a xxxx xx!"