It is so hard to believe at one time this little gadget was on the cutting edge of technology. Before cell phones, pagers received numbers notifying the holder to call the sender. My husband had one in 2001, but I didn’t see the need to have one myself. B., however, had one that she hid under her arm on her bra strap. Her secret boyfriend had given it to her so they could communicate through code. Certain numbers were assigned to names and places. In this way, if the pager were to be confiscated, her mothers and father would not know who she was conversing with. By giving her the pager, this young man had taken a chance of being kicked out of the community, and declared an apostate.
