The Legend of the Switchboard..........

Gather around my rocking chair kiddies and let me tell you a story of the olden days and the fancy machine your granny used to work called the switchboard(insert old lady shaky voice here). LOL So the other day I was out running errands and doing some shopping when I stopped at a store. When I went to pay the young girl behind the counter was telling me she needed a rest room break and wasn't able to leave all day because there was no one to relieve her. Well, I told her how that was the case when I had my very first job right out of high school working a switchboard. She looked very puzzled as if I was speaking another language so I said to her "you have no idea what a switchboard is, do you?" and she laughed and said she never heard of them before. So I told her exactly what a switchboard was. Does anyone else remember switchboards or is it just old ladies like me? LOL Here's the definition of a switchboard for all you young folk out there. A switchboard( also called a manual exchange) was a device used to connect a group of telephones together manually to one another(like the one in the photo above). The switchboard user was known as an operator. Switchboards(or PBXs) gradually disappeared during the last half of the 20th century. It was a good first job but a little tedious. So there's a whole new generation that doesn't even know about this. So it's back to my rocking chair dreaming of the olden days..........hey, I remember milkmen delivering milk to the house also...............I must be ancient............