Iam going to send out this blog I posted in 2015 in which I declared my intention to keep the land line we had in our home, which when I wrote this piece years ago was in Amarillo, Texas.
We moved from Amarillo to the Dallas ‘burbs. When we moved, we made a huge decision. We decided we would not get a land line in our new digs.
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My bride and I have gone totally cellular. That was a big deal for us at the time. It still kinda is. Why? Because we both came of age when telephone technology was part of the place to where we went at night. At home. It was our connection to the rest of the world. If we wanted to talk to someone, we picked up the old rotary-dial phone and dialed ’em up.
These days, we take that phone with us. So many of us have adopted the mentality that was unheard of a generation or two ago, which is that “I just cannot miss the phone call I am expecting.” We need instant response, instant communication. Hey, what happened to the old answering machine one could plug into the phone plugged into the wall at home?
So, we changed our minds regarding the land line. I’ll be frank: I don’t miss it nearly as much as I feared.