I was at work and I got this phone call from a friend of mine. Went something like this...
"I just had to call to tell you about this...I'm on Elston and Milwaukee..near SuperDawg. And I'm looking at an old hotel --the Esquire Hotel--
"It has a sign underneath that says 'television,''switchboard,' 'air-conditioning'"
one of the things they were advertising was that the hotel has a switchboard....do they have an operator there still?"
We laughed about that for a while-- wondering how having a switchboard would be deal-maker to entice someone to pick that hotel. Also we marveled at how that sign just became permanent and nobody bothered to change it--even in this age of cell phones. Pretty funny stuff.
Then he says, "okay, I'm in a funeral procession...gotta go."
Click.
My phone says "CALL WAS LOST." And that's it.