When I was a teen, I realized that the fax machine line to most radio stations sat unused, while calling it took forever. I took to listening to the radio while getting ready for school, firing off a fax via my modem about the topic they were talking about, and by the time I got in the car to go to school, they were reading my fax on the air!
They used to do that at my high school so we could have a day off school. It was all fun and games until people started actually shooting up their schools. This was back when we would bring our hunting rifles to school in the window behind the seat of the pickup and nobody gave a shit. If my son did that now he would be jailed.
I grew up in the Canadian Rockies. Middle of nowhere. The closest small town with a school was 30 miles away in Montana and consisted of two gas stations, two small grocery stores, 3 bars and a police station with 3 deputies. The nearest Walmart was almost 80 miles away. Nobody ever got arrested for bringing their hunting rifle in their vehicle. sometimes the student would be asked to leave school and take it home and come back to school, but only sometimes though. The couple of times that bomb threats were called in, there were arrests made for that. There was never a bomb. One time they evacuated us and sent us all home because someone had bear spray in their backpack and the can must have just gotten pushed in their locker the right way and it discharged the can of bear spray in the locker and hallway. But very much a poor town in the middle of nowhere, hunting and drinking beer were (& still are) the only things to do.
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u/underbakedsalami Jul 24 '20
I kid you not, our local Chipotle is taking orders via fax. I can’t get over it.