10-10-14 07:14 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Any activity from Jean?   
      
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    EV>I haven't seen any messages from Jean Parrot for a while.   
    EV>Today I thought I could ask You if He has been Logging In regularly?   
    EV>Thanks.   
      
    EV>... If you have a rotary phone, please press 1 now.   
      
    TW> Like that Tag Line since I have a type 500 rotary dial phone in   
    TW> the bedroom   
      
   Howdy! Tom,   
      
   You reminded me about something that happened where I worked at.   
      
   When the Lock and Dam I worked at got a Touch Tone Telephone System the   
   phone at the lower end of the Lock (1200 feet away) was programmed to   
   only dial local numbers, a Zero or a One as the first number pressed on   
   the keypad wouldn't make a BEEP when it was pressed.   
      
   Any Deckhand who worked on a Tow Boat had to ask to use the telephone   
   at the upper end and we would watch to make sure the call was Reversed   
   so the Government wouldn't get charged for those calls.   
      
   Then the telephone bill started showing Long Distance Calls made during   
   the Night Shifts even though the door to the lock house on the upper   
   end was locked when nobody was inside it.   
      
   The lower end lock house never was locked and all that could be figured   
   out is that a deckhand climbed up the lockwall and used a Radio Shack   
   Tone Dialer to place those calls by putting it over the mike on the   
   handset and dialing a long distance number.   
      
   After we started locking the door to the lock houses at both ends of   
   the lock when they were empty did the questionable Long Distance Calls   
   stop.   
      
   ... Am sure writing used to be larger, and stairs less steep!   
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