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.
