Re: Dead Verizon landline phone
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Raptured
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Date: June 05, 2011 07:07PM
justsayin Wrote:
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> I thought this was a 2005 thread being bumped...
> people still use landline phones?
Yeah...'fraid so. A long time ago (you know...20-ish years) I got a landline when I moved out here to Centreville. Because my Dear Ol' Ma in College Park called every once in a while I asked for a number she could call as a "local" call.
Little did I know that setting up my phone number to be a "local" call to Maryland-right-across-the-river would have certain really bad ramifications - one, of course, being that the number is NOT portable. So, okay, I no longer need my number to be local to Dear Ol' Ma (since Dear Ol' Ma is Dear Ol' Dead Ma now - hey, it happens). But I have that number everywhere in the whole world - about 479 different entities know me by that number, EACH one of which would have to be accessed, form-filed, God-knows-what to get it changed to a different number.
And...though our cell phones work okay outside our house, they're iffy inside - we get best reception in our "library" (book-filled front room) so tend to walk over there if we want to use them (like this morning when the landline had one its extremely-rare outages). And...no one in my house actually carries a cell phone with them around the house - we pretty much all place our phones on a foyer table - that makes cell use, say, upstairs a real pain in the butt.
So the landline, with its five phones throughout the house, is relatively very convenient.