Why Is It?
You know you are an OLD country kid when:
As a kid, you picked up the "phone" and told the "operator" the 4 digit number you are calling. Yea local only. I had never made a long distance call!
Then when the rotary phone came in to existance, you always had to ask the elderly neighbor lady IF she come resume her conversation later. You needed to make a call. IT was called the party line.
Then someone invented color TV and TV dinners. Go figure.