Perry Mason was an ought '57 tv series. Paul Drake, his "operative" was forever stopping in front of drug stores, racing in, hot on a case, jumping into their phone booth and then dialing a number.
For those of you a lot younger than the curmudgeon, that was how calls were made - you dialed. But the very image of someone racing to a phone in the breach of some emergency or other, and then spending at least a minute dialing is endlessly entertaining.
I don't even know my wife's number - I just push a button.
Even Paul Drake would be impressed.
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