Mother's Day telephone calls

How things have changed in the last few decades.

We have so many vehicles for communicating with each other:  Facebook , Instagram and still that old standby  - the Hallmark card. 

Except for the card,  or any other written communication,  we expect the message to be sent instantly. There is no delay between typing the message into the keyboard and hitting post, or send.

Things were very different when I first came to Canada 50 years ago. The main vehicle for communicating on Mother’s Day was the telephone. What a nightmare that was. 
On Mother’s Day, which the telephone company regularly told us was the busiest day of the year, you nearly always got a busy signal the minute you picked up the phone. I am serious.   The busy tone came on instantly you picked up the hand-piece off the cradle. The lines were so tied up.  I would be on the phone for hours before I could get through.
By the early Eighties, I had an arrangement with my mother whereby I would always phone her on the Saturday and wish her happy Mother’s Day. At least I knew we would get through to each other and could talk as long as we wished.

How long ago that all seems and how I wished I could do that now.