Today is Landline Telephone Day. Tomorrow I'm having my landline disconnected. How's that for timing? Since I use my cell phone for 95% of all my communication needs, at least if you don't count email (I do use my laptop for some of those), I think I'll get along OK. It's actually a logical progression in my phone journey through the years. When I was very young I had a story book with a picture of a candle stick phone and I always thought it would be great to have a phone like that. I never got that phone but over the years our family had an old time crank phone (a big box that hung on the wall), a phone on the wall in the kitchen with a long cord, a princess phone in my New York apartment, and finally, after I was married, two phones, one in the kitchen and one in our bedroom. Car phones the size of a shoe box, and office phones with multiple extensions were also part of my life. At home we evolved to cordless phones - such a convenience. The landline phones I have now, one in the living room and one in the bedroom, are the last ones my husband ever bought and they came from Radio Shack. Do you remember Radio Shack? So now my, phone will be a little rectangular slab, unlike anything I could have imagined as a child, that lets me type messages, listen to recorded books, play games, google information, order groceries, reserve library books, and yes even make phone calls. Life is such fun.
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