My aunt and uncle was on a party line. A single lady down the road listened to all the phone calls for her enjoyment. You could hear the click when she lifted up her phone. There was no privacy at all. Cousins used to holler at her to hang up now, then you could hear the click of her hanging up. Listening to every ones phone calls was her thing. We used to stay at aunt and uncles for summer for harvest and haying season.