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Here in Oklahoma, the Corporation Commission has ordered all the
telephone companies to get rid of party lines and make sure all
customers have single line service. As you can imagine, this is a huge
job for a company the size of Southwestern Bell. One of the towns here
in OKlahoma that was to be upgraded to single line service is called
Grove. Grove sits on one of our nice lakes, with all sorts of trees and
some truly obnoxious winding roads going back into the boondocks. Most
of the outside plant (this means all the cables from the central office
to everybody's phone) in the area was ancient, and there were just not
enough paths to give everybody their own line. So a huge quantity of
jobs was engineered to add all sorts of fancy outside plant in the
Grove area. But the constuction people kept putting off working them. It
was finally getting close to the deadline set by the Corporation
Commission and construction was suddenly yanking crews in from all over
the state to set terminal boxes and radio relays and repeater huts and
so on. Well, several of these crews looked at the location of Grove and
arrived with their boats and water skies in tow. At first they planned
just to have fun after work. But when they saw how much easier and
faster it would be to sail to the job sites instead of tackle those
horrible roads, there were soon crews of telephone folks in their jeans,
boots and hard-hats boating all over the place. One particular group
decided not to waste any time at all began to ski between job sites. No
one had thought to wear swimsuits to work, so they skied in their
underwear. Of course there was someone by with a camera and caught a
lovely shot of one of the valiant crew, skiing across the lake in his
underwear and hard-hat with the rest of the crew in the boat encouraging
him. Needless to say, upper management may have laughed themselves
silly, but officially "they were not amused."
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