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My grandfather owned a business, which meant he made and received a lot of phonecalls. I have no memory of him, as he died two months after I was born (on Halloween, in fact.)
However, my mother told me that he was also a diabetic and, for it, took medication that was a diuretic. That meant, in her words, that every morning he would take his medicine then "go pee for an hour and a half." (I'm very ignorant of medicine so I can only parrot what she told me.)
The combination of these facts apparently resulted in him doing a lot of business (of both kinds) over the phone from atop the commode. He had a phone jack installed next to the toilet and got a phone specifically to keep there.
The phone was the same model as the one pictured in this post.
Bonus fun fact: it was long enough ago that the jack looked like this.
The only reason I know the story outlined above is that I, as a kid, did not know what that jack was and asked my mother about it.