Old landline phone stories, who else remembers fighting over the one phone line in the house

[Maxximus]

Before everyone had their own phone, most houses had exactly one landline and constant negotiations over who got to use it, especially if someone was tying it up with dial up internet at the same time. Any good stories from those days

[VB]

Getting yelled at for picking up the phone mid conversation someone else was having is a core childhood memory for basically everyone my age

[Octopus40]

The specific sound of someone's dial up internet cutting into a phone call is burned permanently into my memory