We keep our old rotary dial land line phone handy all winter in case of a power outage. We have lived in this house for 40+ years and when we first moved here we were on a 10 party line. One day I picked up the phone to hear one "lady" say to the other - " stay on the line while I go peel potatoes for supper - don't want to give up the phone just yet". Then, one of the lines was inside of the little country store about 1/2 mile up the road (gone now) and people without phones would go to the store and use their phone. Sometimes they would forget to hang it back up and when I picked up my phone to use it - I could hear people talking at the store and hear the "ding" of the door when they went in and out. If I wanted to use the phone really bad, I would have to drive to the store and walk in and then go to the phone and hang it up. But, by the time I would get home somebody else would be using the phone. Don't miss those days at all.