Now what do you take away from this scenario?

@celticeagle (189838)
Boise, Idaho
September 25, 2015 10:37am CST
I remember this picture of a woman on roller skates and she was rolling down a line of operators. I guess she was the office manager or something. It was when I was working at the telephone company and we were still on Mecobs which was partly computerized and partly manual yet. This was before the devestiture of '80 or '81 when all that changed and it all went computerized with the AT&T take over. It was when there was just this long black board and it had holes where the hotels came in and the coin phone and the residents too. We would switch into the hole when it lit up and announce ourselves as the long distance operator and ask how we could help them. This one pretty gal loved to take the hotel calls. She would take these calls all the time. One time I was talking to her and she was having a problem with a situation she had with these calls. The majority were form men. Probably salesmen and business staying in town. She would get propositioned and her problem was that she was married. To me that wouldn't be a problem but for her she wondered if she take them up on it or not and she was asking me my opinion. I ask her what she thought her husband would do in the same situation. She gave me the weirdest look.
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• United States
25 Sep 15
i'm thinkin' that if'n she was e'en givin' an inklin' 'f a thought to what strangers proposed 'cross the phone line that she t'weren't real happy with her home life. 'r perhaps it stroked her ego somewhat to get such attentions?
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@GardenGerty (169450)
• United States
26 Sep 15
I think you are right. It is an ego boost to be asked. Even more so, her asking @celticeagle was actually her way of bragging.
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• United States
27 Sep 15
@GardenGerty i got propositioned a bit myself runnin' a switchboard - sure didn't make me feel warm 'n fuzzy. jest weirded me out.
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
25 Sep 15
If she was asking that, she was not a very good wife.
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@GardenGerty (169450)
• United States
26 Sep 15
Sounds as if she only was thinking of herself and it never occurred to her that her husband might have an opinion or feelings as well.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Sep 15
Hee hee - yah, perhaps she should have gotten an opinion from her husband!
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Sep 15
Right on!
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
25 Sep 15
It seems to me, she was about to make a big mistake,
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