I still hang out on the line...and I live in a big city. We have been in the same house for 30 years...when we first moved in, it was a Sunday and I was hanging out some clothes and a neighbor was driving down the alley...honks her horn and yells out the window..."Don't you know better? You don't hang out laundry on Sundays"...
I was stunned but yelled back " you do if the dryer is broke".
She was in her late 60's, I was in my early 20's. We became good friends and laughed over it many times.