Stealing Speakers

I was scrolling through the local section of the Journal Star, Lincoln’s town newspaper, when I came across the story of speaker boxes being stolen at both a Subway and Kentucky Fried Chicken over the weekend. This story stood out to me for no apparent reason other than the absurdity of stealing the speaker boxes. So reading through the police report, I saw that the speaker box from Subway was valued at two hundred dollars and the one from Kentucky Fried Chicken was only fifty dollars. I did not even know how expensive those things were and I honestly take them for granted. I know I would never think of stealing one of those speaker boxes and it makes me ponder the weird people we live among.

It would be really interesting to meet the people who took the time out of their days to figure out to steal two speaker boxes. Either they are totally insane or were under the influence of a narcotic or alcohol because no one in their right mind steals those things. What are they supposed to do with them now? Are they going to set them up at their house so they can talk to people who come around to the back? It would be kind of suspicious to have one of those just sitting in your front lawn. So I think these people are not the crème of the crop. Or they could possible sell it on ebay. Would their advertisement say stolen speakers for sale? I just do not think that this was the wisest idea even though they must have had a plan of attack to snip the wires and get away without getting caught. I would like to meet someone who is unique enough to pull that one off.

My trip to the Frank Wood National Telephone Museum was interesting. The day first started off as I was unable to find the building because it is a very plain building with few distinguishable marks. Once inside, the building was dull with plain white walls. The most interesting part of the museum was the baseball caps lined along the top of the walls. I believe there was one hat for every telephone company that existed. I found it unique to see how the telephone companies have come and gone throughout the years through baseball caps. Mostly this was unique because I did not expect to see baseball caps in a telephone museum so it really caught my attention. Otherwise, the museum was what I had expected to see with many different types of phones as they progress through history.
Many of the types of phones I had already seen in text books but what I did not know was the different companies. The creepy wax models were displaying various types of headsets that looked very cumbersome for earlier operators. I was surprised also to see the different types of the original phone there were because I thought there was only one generic type but depending on the company many designs were available. By visiting the museum, I have found a new appreciation for the advancements made in development of telephones because I would not like to carry around some huge phone or have a cord constantly attached to a wall. Gerald, also, made the trip more interesting. He was the volunteer worker who seemed very versed in telephone history and eager to answer any and all of our questions. Although it was as bland as could be, the telephone museum fulfilled its purpose and showed me the history of the telephone.