Tom's Tall Tales - "The time the ‘Men in Black’ paid me a visit"

“There are two gentlemen in black suits waiting for you downstairs.”
Two gentlemen in black?
We didn’t have phones in our dorm rooms back in the “olden days,” just a “squawk-box” connected to the Willa Cather Hall switchboard on the first floor.
If somebody wanted to call or visit you, they’d call the Willa Cather Hall switchboard. The college student on duty would “buzz” your room, announce your phone call or visitor on that squawk-box, and you’d walk over to the one phone on the floor or take the elevator downstairs.
Yup, there were no cell phones in the late 1960s when I was a University of Nebraska undergraduate.
I didn’t know anybody who’d be wearing a black suit who’d want to see me, I thought, as I elevatored my way from my ninth-floor room to the first floor.

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