We spent about 4 hours driving around to about 8 area Good Wills and Salvation Army stores Saturday looking for rotary phones. Vince found this 1972 rotary phone at the Good Will in Murfreesboro for $15. Needless to say, none of the other stores had one. I suspect the people that sort what comes in toss them in the trash unless they look like this one.

At the Smyrna Good Will, some guy wandering the isles of the store came up to me in a loud, but friendly voice, “Remember who loves you!” Startled, I asked him who. I had an idea where this was going, and sure enough he pointed his finger in the air and said matter of factly, “Jesus!” Even weirder, just as I left the store, the woman behind the counter said my full name. I was somewhat taken aback, looked her way, and saw it was an old acquaintance from MTSU.

Today, I plugged the rotary phone up to our VoIP and was surprised to find it worked perfectly. I still need to have longer conversations to see if the amount of power from the VoIP box is good enough.

Next weekend, we’re heading to the Tennessee Fair Grounds for the monthly flea market where I’ve seen several rotary phones for sale. I’m not sure how much they were, so tonight I tried bidding for a few on eBay. Some jerk out bid me on a very nice French-style rotary phone that was way under priced. I eventually got a batch of four rotary phones for about $20 + shipping. It was an amazing deal, and I’m not so sure I’ll be able to beat that deal next weekend, but we’ll see.