LAND LINE

 

I still have a wall phone on my kitchen wall.  With a  l o n g a,  l o n g a  cord.  Time was when I would walk around the kitchen doing dishes, fixing meals, cleaning up.  Not any more.  I was never much of a telephone talker and with the advent of the computer I use the phone as little as possible -- the exception being talking with my sister.

Jacq still talks on the phone -- a lot.  She has several distantly located contacts with whom she checks in periodically and spends an hour or so.  Not me.  I will talk to Jacq for an hour or more but with anyone else I get fidgety and bored.  Not with Jacq.

As soon as there was Prodigy, I was an instant cyberspace communicator.  When Prodigy went by the wayside I was instantly a subscriber to AOL.  IM'd a lot.  E-mail is my main communication link.  My sister and I e-mail every day.  (And we still have things to talk about when we phone.)  Church communication is done via e-mail.  Luncheon dates with the "Ladies" is done through e-mail.  People know not to call unless it is an absolute emergency, otherwise just rest assured that I will answer the e-mail.

And so the phone sits idle most of the time.  Interesting that with cell phones and IPhones, and FaceBook, we have REnamed the phone.  It is now considered a Land Line.  Progress is weird -- on many levels.