It's so crowded in here

"I know a few. They're kinda weird. Just this side of gutter magic, though they're all pretty useful. The phone rite has to be one of the most useful, though, for sure---and you don't even need that much for it. A windowless room with corners, a phone book from a different city for each corner of the room, and a bottle of red wine, the smaller, the better. And, yep. Lucky me." Sam grinned for a moment, meaning that last remark, and let Rick think for a minute before piping up again, since she knew she'd be wondering until she went ahead and asked. "Totally off topic, but... we had a moment of wait, what? over 'fed up,' and now I'm wondering what a party line is to you, cause I'm used to it meaning a landline connecting a couple of houses the same way a landline would be connected to rooms in the same house."