Whining Thread #2

[Peaches]

Am I the only person on DF who still has a landline? With one of those super long curly cords? I untangled it just this way *today*.

Quite possibly.

We kept ours for a while. But it was mostly pointless. It was either telemarketers, or people we didn't feel like talking to right.that.moment (parents). And when things went all wahooni-shaped last year it was just that much more we could trim from the budget. (Just ~$20, but still.) Oh, and it was one less payment I had to think about each month. I'm all about eliminating unnecessary payments.

 

[musicchica86]

remember when the super long long curly cord would get all tangled.... and you would have to hold the phone by the cord and let it unwind from itself...?

I still have to do that at work.

And JA, my grandma still has a landline. But really, in my family it's been more a matter of convenience. We've all moved, and it just didn't make sense to install a landline when we all had our cell phones. It might have been a different situation if we were still living somewhere that already had a landline and we would have had to make a conscious decision to cut it off.

 

[Lioness]

Mind space is clogged...would like time to relax and unwind, but this week is all dance practise and packing and work and study and things that don't help me unwind at all.

 

[nucat78]

Am I the only person on DF who still has a landline? With one of those super long curly cords? I untangled it just this way *today*.

I still have a landline. Very stripped down - no features but I do have ADSL Internet on it. I use it for faxes (yes, people still fax) and I give out my landline number to the general public, so to speak. I only give my cell number to family and close friends.

 

[pygmalion]

I remember trying to buy my grandmom a rotary phone for Christmas, back twenty-something years ago. It was virtually impossible, even then. I ended up buying a used/refurbished phone, just to get her that rotary dial. She loved it! God rest her soul.

 

[Peaches]

Flippin' insomnia strikes again. Dangit.

 

[etp777]

Did someone say Rotary phones? http:// www. boldoldphones.com/

 

[pygmalion]

Flippin' insomnia strikes again. Dangit.

Would lime bars help? :razz:

 

[Peaches]

Dunno. But Advil PM did. Unfortunately, taking it at 12:45 means that waking up at 5:45 is...not so pleasant. At least I got to sleep in!

 

[j_alexandra]

rotary too? :shock:

lol no, at least it's touch-tone. Trimline, if that means anything to you, you young whippersnapper.

It's the business phone, we've had it for decades, the number is published all over the internet, why change it? It works. Not to mention it's the only phone that still works when there's a major blackout.

 

[j_alexandra]

whine whine

awake at 2:30. Didn't even try to get back to sleep.

 

[Peaches]

Thank you, Tech Team, for absolutely nothing.

I am trying to work from home today. At the first of three logons to the laptop, I'm getting an error message saying that the machine has not communicated with the server for too long, and that I am locked out, and only an admin can logon now. Great. Of course calling the Tech Team doesn't do squat because, for all the hullabaloo about always having "office coverage" (aka: always having someone from each section at work for business hours) that apparently doesn't apply to the Tech Team. Great.

Having spoken with a coworker who had the same problem, the thinking is that it stems from our office move and new server locations or something. Seems the laptops have to be reset to play nicely with the network now. I guess there was a window of time where it would still work, but the window is closed now. Thanks, guys, for the COMPLETE LACK OF WARNING OR INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FACT!!! Suspicion is that I'll actually have to go in to work now and bring the laptop so it can be reset. You know, now that it's too late for me to catch the last train in...and late enough that I'll hit absolutely horrendous traffic.

Great. Thanks for abso-freakin'-lutely nothing. Yay.

 

[Peaches]

I hate...

And I woke up in such a good mood, too. And I've got lots to do, and lots I was excited about finally getting off of my plate. I don't feel like being irritable today. And yet I find myself so annoyed.

 

[TangoRocks]

Am I the only person on DF who still has a landline? With one of those super long curly cords? I untangled it just this way *today*.

I have a landline, complete with a "regular" phone attached to it, and I am no techno-luddite. I do have a couple of cellphones and VoIP as well, however if anyone remembers 9/11 and how "useful" cellphones were just after the disaster, or the big power outage in the Eastern seaboard a few years back, you'll be able to see my point. Just because a technology is old does not mean it's useless--all my cordless phones were worth so much junk when the power outage hit, and if all you have is VoIP and your internet connection dies, how do you call (and wait on the line for hours) at your internet provider's 1 800 line? I know that in the US a lot of people have "unlimited" cell phone plans and unused minutes transferred to the next month, but until and unless that happens in Canada, I am reluctant to cut the land line, so to speak. Oh, and cell phones? Mine does not always work in some buildings, including specific spots at work, and I have a brand new phone with all the goodies on the supposedly "best" network in Canada.

 

[bia]

I still have a landline with a corded phone (and a couple cordless, too), for lots of the same reasons other people have given. I considered going cell-phone-only, but I can't be relied on to keep it charged. Plus, in a two-story house, it's nice to have multiple extensions around -- wherever I've left the cell, I can't hear it from everywhere in the house, and I can't always get to it before it goes to voicemail. What I want someone to invent (no one has yet, right?) is a dock to put the cellphone in when I get home, which transfers the signal to various extensions around the house.

It's funny seeing kids with a rotary phone -- they have no idea how to dial it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c