Rainy had to go today to get a battery for her cordless phone. She had to bring her handset so they could match the battery. They had trouble matching the battery. She was then alerted that her cordless phone was a million years old. The kind they make now doesn't have a little antenna thing on the handset part. My worry is that they will quit making batteries for her beloved phone. I looked at newer phones. They no longer have the little antenna thing. This is my exact phone:




What kind of cordless phone do you guys have?

Arwen has not had a home phone, cordless or not, for about 6 years now.

Arwen just has her iPhone.

We have some with that little antenna thing too. I think they're made by panasonic.

They suck and I hate them.

VB has never had a oordless landline. VB has one landline and 3 phones with cords connected to it. VB says, "Very good. VB likes it that way".

Truly has a landline phone. Truly says that is best because when the power goes out, as it often does, the landline phone still works.

Aurora has not had a landline for about 6 years as well, and she likes it this way. Aurora can see the point of a landline if there are children using the phone, but not otherwise.

Arwen would like it noted that Squid messed up the whole thing we have going here.

Arwen is disappointed in Squid

Bider too has not had a land line for about 6 years at least. No need for Bider's friends to have to call more than one number so Bider can let it ring and go to voicemail.

BTW, do you think pagers were the first text messages? Well, besides the telegraph.

"Ta Friggin da"

Ginny does not use a landline, either. Ginny was getting too many calls from the local paper trying to get her to buy it. Ginny got annoyed.

VB agrees with Truly on that point. Because VB's phone is plugged directly into the jack and does not require an power socket or battery to operate, it works very nicely in a power outage.

VB is a highly intelligent woman and Truly is proud to call her friend.

Arwen is happy to see the compliments and friendship shown on Rainy's thread

Aurora is confused. How long do power outages last that non-landline phones run out of power? Also, Aurora can charge her phone by using her computer, which is always fully charged. So if the power is out for a long time, Aurora could still probably manage a call or two.

How as the third poster could I have messed it up?

She did it, then you did it, and then I didn't. What came after I'm in no way responsible for.

For not doing it here and now in this post? Well, Squiddy don't play that.

Oh Squiddy, Arwen thinks you just should have known

Aurora makes some good points.

Arwen's laptop is a piece of crap in that the battery, which always shows as 100% charged, immediately drops to only 5% if Arwen trips over the power cord and pulls it out for even a second. Arwen wants to throw her laptop out the window into traffic.

Truly's computer has a backup battery that lasts about 20 minutes after the power goes out. Due to the locale of Truly's abode, she is frequently without power due to crazy wicked storms.

Ginny rarely has power outages. Ginny lives in the city of Anaheim, which has its own power grid and manages its own power. Ginny likes paying less for power than everyone else around here and getting better service. Ginny gives Anaheim Public Utilities an A+.

Even though they're A P-U?

PearlGurl has a land line that she uses the same way she uses a throw-away e-mail account. She gives out the land line number to the people that she does business with but doesn't actually want to talk to. Credit card companies, car dealerships, financial advisers, roofing contractors, etc can all go straight to voicemail.

Appy just bought new cordless phones for her land line. The announce what the caller I'd says and they annoy appy.

Funk thinks talking like this makes him sound like an elementary school teacher reading a story to children. Are you ready for a story? Funk wuved his itty bitty cordwess phone sooooo much that he had a sad when the battewy died. Funk couldn't find an exact battewy match, so he spliced a new one right into that old cordless beeyotch. It's wonderful what Funk can do with a wazor bwade and ewectrical tape.

Actually Funk, that's what they did for me. They took the plug off of the old battery and changed it out on a new battery. =D Rainy was happy!

'neady has to have a landline because 'neady doesn't get a good cell signal at home.
'neady's teenage daughter is happy to have a landline since her cell phone is now sitting on the bottom of the Schuylkill River.
'neady threw that shit out the window.

Bider quietly slips cell phone back into her pocket.

"Ta Friggin da"

Truly just burst out laughing at 'Neady. Truly thinks she will be doing the same thing to Erin's ITouch.

Balti's cordless phones are close to 10 years old. Unlike Appy, Balti likes that phone talks to her. That way, Balti doesn't have to move if it's someone she doesn't want to talk to.

Balti would like to ditch the landline altogether, but Mr. Balti is old and tough to get on board with that concept.

Where did Rainy go to get this battery where the people told her her phone was really old? Sounds like they were just trying to get her to buy a new phone from them. potato recommends looking on places like batteries.com. He bought stuff from them one time. Here's their GE page... http://www.batteries.com/cordless-phone/ge/

Ms Jo has 3 corded phones and won't part with them'

Jo has tried cordless phones and hates A) the loud beeping when battery is low B) the crazy cost of replacement batteries C) that the battery the phone comes with has loads of powah and all subsequent ones significantly less.

Linds has a cell phone, Jo does not.

Veebs and Tru are smaht peeples

Jo's phones look like this...

growing up it did

AND SO DID YOURS POTATO

-Can you believe we took THAT long to physically dial a number?

Heh.
Yeah, I have to admit I kind of miss them. I miss the sound of an actual bell ringing as opposed to that tinny synthetic bell sound that everyone seems to have on their cell phones these days. And man, were those things solid or what? But yeah, if you were in a major hurry to call someone it was pretty much torture waiting for that dial to return back to its starting point every number.

What Arwen misses is that you could really SLAM that thing down in anger. Not the same with a cordless phone at all.

Do rotary phones still work on the phone lines? It might be interesting to have one.

$8 has a landline through Comcast, and a set of 4 Uniden cordless phones. His cell signal sucks at home, but he digs the caller ID popping up on the tv whilest he watches his shows. M'lady.

Tim Tebow, Jesus, and Mr. Sulu approved this stupid post.

Ginny remembers when you had to rotary dial a number, then sit there and wait for the stupid dial to tick all the way back until Ginny could dial the next number. Then if Ginny got a wrong number, it was like a serious wasted time investment.

ED doesn't like telephones. ED used them only when necessary.