Significant but unknown
The NFL Player and my buddy Thor took the Firecracker and myself out to Porterhouse for my birthday again.
Him: I assume you’ll have an Old Fashioned with Rye.
Me: I like what I like.
This time, everyone came with their significant others, which was nice.
We all chatted about the earthquake and the eclipse…
…amongst other things.
Him: Logan always has some random fact.
Me: This is true. Did you know that, when I was a kid, Cap’n Crunch gave away a plastic whistle that oscillated at exactly 2,600Hz, which was the exact frequency of NYC payphones so that if you blew one before a call, you could make free calls anywhere in the world? [ED: I misspoke, it was the frequency for all AT&T phones, not just NYC, because they ran a monopoly on pay phones across the country].
Her: How do you remember all this stuff?
Me: (shrugging) I don’t get out much.
As that article I linked above notes, Apple – and the iPhone you’re most likely reading this upon – would not have existed but for the existence of that whistle.
I love these kinda significant but often unknown stories.
In any case, the dinner, and the conversation, was great, as usual.
The NFL Player and his wife went to Africa and showed us pics. It was all pretty cool.
The people sitting in the table next to us were also having a birthday celebration, so there were lots of rounds of, “Happy Birthday.”
Like I said before, there are worse ways to turn 51.
Let’s see how this decade goes.
Location: Crenshaw, Los Angeles
Mood: hungry and annoyed
Music: She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a secondhand store (Spotify)
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