When I was growing up we just had the one phone and it wasn't a cell phone we didn't have a cordless phone for the longest time

We had the standard landline with the cord attached to the wall and the tape recorded answering machine and we could only use it so much and there were two teenagers,

three teenagers in the house at times, but my sister and I in particular we were kind of rivals

over the phone because we both had you know crushes that we needed to

check in on and gossip that we need to participate in because you know we're teenagers so we had

these rules that mom and dad handed down about how things needed to be and if mom and dad were at the house

they could manage it and keep us from being complete idiots about the phone but if they weren't

there we tended to get after each other a little bit and it tended to turn really, really ugly.

And so they had this rule, which was you can't touch the phone physically if somebody else is on it,

even if they've been on it too long and broken rules because we were starting to do this thing where we'd reach up and like jam our fingers in there and be like,

hanging up, you're four minutes over the time and I need to talk to my crush.

And so they made this rule and they went away one time and my sister she saved up some money to buy this crazy extra long like 80 foot phone cord so she could stretch it all the way through the house and into her bedroom and then shut the door in there and then she could talk about super secret private things.

Well, it was my turn to call my girlfriend and she wasn't getting off the phone and there was no mom and dad to make her do it

and she was hiding under the protection of her room and the law of I physically can't touch the phone.

I'm like well that thing is attached to a cord and I know one way to interrupt this call so I went back to the source and I warned her a couple times she did not budge so I unplugged the phone from the wall and

wow what came out of that door was all it was all red and angry and sweaty and

super mad and like ready to physically fight and I thought that was kind of funny at

first and I was like no she wants to kill me okay this has gone too far and so she was mad and I was mad and then

mom and dad got home things escalated a little bit and they're like sit down and

they start sorting through the whole thing and my sister's this emotional

angry wreck and I'm like all right I'm going to win this by

demonstrating my superior composure and so I laid out as the great orators of your

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