The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-04
Women Guests Usually
Are Crankier Than
the Men
RYa Telephone Girl.

EFF had dollar for each and
every time some big, healthy
u overgrown buyer from out-of-
town said softly to me over the tele-
phone, "Dearie, I'm awfully lone
gome," I'd be out driving every day
In the park in my Rolls-Royce and
playing nah jong and all the other
newfangled games every "awfter-
noon" with Mrs. Goldirocks and the
rest of the blue bloods. And on that
"if' hangs the story, as they say
You see, / am telephone opera
tor in a fair4sized hotel. I've been
on the job for few years now, and
I feel that if we're to write down all
the questions asked me by guests and
others, I would need about two miles
Of paper, because, if there's one per-
son in the world who can ask the
most foolish questions in the world
it's hotel guest. You'd think they
were in bug house.
/ hear everything you can think Of.
Husbands and wives quarreling, 9TH
urs making up, some crying as II
their hearts would break and others
laughing as if they didn't have a
worry in the world.
When Work Is Heaviest,
People on the outside do not real
ize the job hotel telephone opera
tor has. l am not trying to make
myself seem like a girl who should
have painted lily in her hand, but
everybody thinks you are walking
encyclopedia, Notwithstanding the
fact that you have to answer calls
at the rate of about five minute.
Around 9 and 10 in the morning the
calls are heaviest, while about an
hour later they start to ease up bit,
but at that it keeps an operator on
the go, trying to- think up sensible
answers to foolish questions. I'm
agine someone asking telephone
operator, where's the Bible that be-
longs in this room?" whats the
Mayors name?" "I hear every drug
store in this town sells hooch. Is
that right, operator, for am going
out for walk" will you please
have the boy bring up pitcher of
cracked ice?" Say, operator, could
you tell me where l can get some
orange jUice?" That's only few of
them. There are others that are far
from choicy, and there are others
not SO good. OF course, ordinarily,
these aren't crazy questions, but to
ask these of an operator, well, that's
different.
Classify Callers.
we operators know what we would
like to say to you when you ask us
some of the questions written here,
but as that saying. Heaven will
protect the working girl" has been
listed as false alarm many years
ago, we try to be as sweet as posi-
BILE and give you the nearest answer
We possibly can to the question.
You no more than pick up the re-
ceiver in your room than we know
what kind of a person you are. OF
course, we're not clairvoyants who
can tell the color of your hair, but
we can tell what kind of a DISPOSE
ton you have, and on your DISPOSE
ton hinges whether you are city
dweller or a person from the country.
Country People More Polite.
The city person is more or less apt
to be cranky. They have the "Gim-
me" and "Getmes." You know, gimme
this, gimme that, getme this, getme
that. And while most of them are
polite, there are some who would
send perfectly healthy telephone OPP
orators to a padded cell if they said
''Thank you!" And if you don't get
what they want right away, or if you
are unable to answer their questions