Sunday, April 25, 2021

another new old trick

 As some of you will remember, a few weeks ago I gave up my land line.  I am happy to report that I haven't missed it at all.  The only real reason that I had hesitated for so long to make the change was because I couldn't seem to find the right way to hold my cell phone.  I don't mean I was holding it upside down.  I do know better than that.  But because of the shape of my phone (a flat rectangular slab) I found that if I held it so I could hear clearly often people on the other end would complain that they couldn't hear me.  I have been getting better recently at holding my phone at just the right angle so the person I am talking to can hear me.  However I do still sometimes hear that complaint. The other day though, a wonderful thing happened.  You know those cartoons where the little character has a good idea and a light bulb shows up over his head?  I was talking on the phone with a friend and she said "Just a minute, I'm going to put you on speaker phone."  And just like that I felt the light bulb flash over my head.  If I could figure out how to put my phone on speaker I wouldn't need to worry about how I hold it at all.  I hoped it wouldn't be too complicated.  As soon as we finished our conversation, I checked the screen and Eureka! there is a little symbol labeled 'speaker.'  I have used this wonderful option for every phone conversation since and it works like a charm.  Old dog, new trick. Woof!

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