Zooking

My sister called today and in the course of our conversation she asked if I knew what "zooking" was. I told her I didn't. She was laughing as she began to remind me of our mother's phone. Now, for those who are young you may not really understand this. But for those of my age you will know exactly what I'm talking about. Before there were touch tone phones we had what was called a rotary dial. My mother still has one of those phones. Anyway, whenever you made a call it made this sound after each dialed number. And that sound went something like this:

Zooking, zooking, zooking, zooking, zooking, zoooking, zooking....

Now, the length of the zooking sound was determined by which number you were dialing. Nine was a stretched out zooooking, while one was more like zking. Boy, those were the days, huh? Our excitement revolved around the sound of a phone dialing. Woohoo! But I had to laugh. And it's even funnier when you hear my sister telling the story.