#19 The Simultaneous Connection
I was 11 or 12 in the early 1970s. My dad came home one Friday and announced we were going to King’s Island (a fairly new amusement park at the time) tomorrow. I begged him to let me invite my friend, Chris, to come along. He said okay as long as Chris could pay his own way.
Great! Off to the phone, I went. I pick it up and there’s no dial tone. “Hello?”
“Hey, is that you?”
“Chris? I was just calling you. What’s up?”
“I was calling to ask if you would like to come to King’s Island tomorrow, but you have to pay your own way.”
No phone ever rang, we both called each other at the same time to ask the exact same thing.
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