Sure, now we can Zoom or FaceTime or simply just text our elders. But there’s a whole generation of folks who’ve never even heard of long distance. What’s long distance? Who cares how far Grandma lives or what time we call her? I’ll just hit up her DM. But y’all remember. Y’all had folks you only called at certain times of the day. Y’all had folks you weren’t going to waste a long distance call on at all. Those were the ones you called collect. But that’s a subject for a different post.
I Don't Get It 
I call my sister ever day. Because she doesn’t have a long distance package and calls are too expensive for her to call me.
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Can’t you text for free?
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Yes, I do but I like to hear her voice, there is a lot of emotion lost in texting
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True.
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It was a tradition in my family that, when we arrived home after a visit to Nana, we had to call her and let the phone ring twice and then hang up. That way she knew we got home safely but no actual phone charges were incurred. Can you imagine and that was in the 60s.
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I love that!
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My mom would have visitors make a “person to person” call when operator if the person was there to take the call? She would say “no they are not here”. That way she knew visitor arrived home.no charges incurred. Lol
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I do indeed remember the times when Bell acted as if their operators needed to run along the phone lines themselves to deliver your voice, Kerbey!
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That’s a good way to put it.
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I am not big on talking on the phone. It is better than nothing but I require actual face time.
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