1 We talked to people in person
2 We talked to people in person
3 You didn't, and it was probably a telemarketer. Because if you wanted to talk to someone, you talked to them in person.
4 By talking to people in person
5 By talking to people who knew them
6 By going out and interacting with people in person
7 You didn't. Because that's pathetic.
8 You didn't. No one cares.
9 You applied in person
10 You needed to be home before the streetlights came on. Otherwise, you would know what the car sounded like coming to look for you
11 Watched people
12 We worked fast food usually, so...
13 You didn't. You just kinda told them when you got there. Unless you were lucky enough to find a non vandalised payphone.
14 Paper
15 By learning your town.
16 Wait for help
17 Sometimes, you had to help put groceries in cars for tips.
18 One summer, when I broke my jaw and couldn't do anything, I read the encyclopedia.
19 Looked outside
20 TALK TO THEM IN PERSON
My last (hopefully) retail job was just at the dawn of the cell phone age but before they really took off. I worked in kind of a rude and snooty area and if some of the customers in my store would have had cellphones I might have tried to make some of them swallow their phones. And the phones were bigger back then.