Did the wet ground there save some wooden stuff for you?

Used to think the process didn't matter, but now I see collectors pay for the human story behind the work.

Hell yeah, and you know what nobody talks about? Those old tone traces were the only time we actually learned the plant, pair by pair, splice by splice. Now I plug in and it spits out a map, but I couldn't tell you which pedestal feeds which house if my life depended on it. That 20 minute hunt meant you knew every rat's nest in that pedestal, and you could fix the next one blindfolded. These kid techs just swap the modem and walk away, no clue what's actually broken. The tester's nice, but it made us lazy, and that lazy is why we get the same ticket three times in a week.