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An Old Innocent STD Booth
Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle
When STD was subscriber trunk dialing
Languages keep shape-shifting based on need. With each generation, the English language is changing so rapidly that it is hard to keep pace. Innocent words of yesterday take on a new meaning in today’s world.
Let’s not even get started on the zillions of acronyms and what they mean under various circumstances. For example, until a couple of decades ago, STD and STD code was something related to the domain of landline or rotary dial phones. To call another city, we had to add the city’s STD code before dialing the phone number. We used the word STD without fear of being misunderstood.
Today, if I say STD or STD code, I am met with strange glances and embarrassed tittering.
I found this derelict phone booth at a wayside hotel on a highway in Karnataka — a memory of the old times.
It was funny to read the text. The management ‘ate Not Responible for Jungs.’ Did they eat or respo‘nible’ someone? And what is Jungs? I guess we will never know!