I’m old enough to remember the days before cell phones, and I was pretty much the last person on earth to get one. In my day, we used two soup cans and a string, and we LIKED it! Also, I wore an onion on my belt, and...wait, where was I?
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After getting a zillion letters about upgrading our internet, Packrat called our phone/internet company (for anonymity’s sake, I’ll refer to them as Aggravation & Troublesome Telemarketing, or A&TT for short). She spent an incredibly frustrating hour on the phone, fending off endless upsell, at the end of which the “customer service” person said, “Wait, this isn’t for a business? You’ll need to call our number for residential.” No, seriously.
Packrat finally called a different company, and we got our fiberoptic whatnot squared away. But now our landline, which was also with A&TT, is unusable. You know where this is going, right? Another unhelpful call to A&TT, where they kept offering options like “We can move your landline number to your cell phone.” We already have cell phones. The issue is having a landline. Packrat is now looking at options for “satellite landlines,” and debating whether we need one at all.
Pros of keeping the landline:
- Being reachable 24/7 for emergencies.
- We’ve had this number forever, everyone already has it, and we wouldn’t need to change our phone number of record with the vet, credit union, HR, etc, etc.
- I have a phone number I can use online for charities, political donations, etc, that won’t get me spammed with texts.
- I’d have to retrain some habits; I don’t take my cell phone everywhere, and only turn it on when I use it.
- I hate change.
Cons:
- Being reachable 24/7 for non-emergencies.
- Most of the calls we get these days are spammers and scammers that we don’t even pick up.
- One less expense.
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Many people are too busy with 15 million activities, entertainments, and social media to see beyond surface impressions of politics, and many others are too busy trying to survive lives complicated by oligarchs and their Republican minions.
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