This morning I was online and I found out today was Emma M Nut Day she was the first female telephone operator and someone I wouldn’t have knew about it I hadn’t been looking up #Holidays to share with David and Charlie.

As I read about here I wanted to ask you a question. Do you remember when making a phone call could mean putting a quarter into a pay phone? I do. Or do you remember the song Here’s a Quarter.

When I was growing up we could walk down the street and find a phone booth or a pay phone when we needed to make a call. If we had a question we could call the operator and we had a number to check the Weather. I miss those times and our children don’t know what there missing.

We didn’t have to carry our own telephone everywhere we went because the telephone was already out there waiting for you. And if you needed to call somebody, you found a phone. If you were very lucky you might have had a phone in your car. Can you imagine telling that to a kid today?

Today, almost everyone seems to have a phone in their hand. And I’ll admit something else. Sometimes I miss the days when they didn’t. I don’t know about you, but I hate walking down the street and seeing every Tom, Dick, and Harry staring down at a phone instead of looking up and talking to the person standing right in front of them.

We’re surrounded by people, but everybody is looking at a screen. What happened to looking somebody in the eye? What happened to sitting together and actually talking? What happened to getting together with friends without everybody pulling out a phone?

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. Maybe I am. But there was something pretty special about those good old days when you had to make an effort to call somebody. You had to be home when the phone rang.

You couldn’t send somebody a text just because you were thinking about them. You couldn’t see what everybody was doing every minute of the day. And somehow, we still managed to keep in touch. We talked. We visited. We laughed. We wrote letters. We made plans—and then actually showed up.

So on Emma M. Nutt Day, while we’re remembering the woman who helped make telephone communication part of everyday life, I’m also going to take a minute to remember what life was like before our phones became the center of it.

Sometimes I really do wonder: Why can’t we go back to some of those good old days? Maybe we can’t go all the way back. But maybe we can bring a little bit of them forward. Put the phone down. Look up. Talk to somebody. And remember that the person standing right in front of you might be more interesting than whatever is happening on that little screen.

Grateful, Thankful, Blessed.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates