Jordan Harbinger

Those 1-900 numbers that teenagers called in the 90s when your parents found the bill and kicked your ass because it was like $3.99 a minute.

That's where you got dumped into a line with 10 other pimply faced kids.

And somebody was like, I'm going swimming in my pool.

And other person's like, yeah, I'm just playing Atari with my brother.

What am I talking about right now?

Well, they were fun, but they again, you get in trouble because they're super expensive and they're kind of praying that you don't know that they're two bucks a minute.

It's funny that now that you mention this, my grandma had a party line.

I remember my dad mentioned it because I picked up the phone once.

I can't remember why.

And I heard talking and then I hung up and I heard talking and I hung up and I heard talking.

I was like, Dad, I hear talking.

The phone's not working.

He's like, oh, hang up.

That's the neighbor across the street or next door or whatever.

They're using the phone.

I'm like, what are you talking about?

It was like, you could just pick up the phone and you would hear your neighbor if they were using that line.

So that's, I think, what people were saying, oh, critics warned that eavesdropping would become normal.

Not just your eavesdropping on whoever's on the phone in your own house, but that if you were bored or nosy, you could silently and quietly pick up the phone in your own home and listen to your neighbors making calls.

So it was very weird, but it was cheaper than having your own phone line.