Who here had their own phone line as a kid?

When I was growing up we were on a four-party line.

We had two, but neither was "mine". One was for the computer that my father's company paid for, and the other was the main line.

I did and I called Cleo on a dare. She was pretty good. She predicted I would hang up the phone. I did.

We moved To Arkansas from California in 1981 and my parents built a house on a parcel of my grandparents land, I remember my dad having to hassle the phone company over having the first private line in the little town we lived in. Every one else was on a party line, and no we never got a second phone line.

We had this deal where my sister and I had our own numbers, and the phone would do a different ring for each number. Basically a family party line. One thing I remember about it was that we would sometimes hear a little squeak sound from the phone about three seconds before it would ring. It started doing that after the new phone lines.

Got one when I was 12 back in 2004. still have the same number.

Cell phones didn't really exist when I was a kid. The big bag phones did I guess. I don't think I had one until I graduated college.

ETA - You are talking about land lines. Hell no. My dad would have laughed at the idea.

He is talking about having your own landline in your house

I had one. Was nice not having to stretch the cord around into a separate room to whisper to "my girl". My parents kinda forgot about it once I moved out and finally realized and dropped the line about 10 years ago. I was in my late 30's.