CORDED PHONE

Corded Phone

Although phones have come a long way, and I have had cordless in my home for a very long time, I still keep a corded phone around where I can find it. When the power goes out, so does my phone, and we all know cordless phones won’t work without electricity. When I had regular phone service, the corded phone would work when the power went out. Now that I have digital phone, I can’t call anyone on our phone at all, even with the corded one, but I still keep it around.

The last cordless phone I had was just around for too long. I couldn’t take for more than ten minutes before the battery would die. When this happened, I could get out my corded phone, plug it in, and continue with my conversation. I try to avoid being on the phone for too long with anyone, but when someone calls from Australia, I have a hard time hanging up. In those cases, the corded phone was a blessing. I have a new cordless now, and the batteries are great, but I still hang on to the old phone because you just never know.

If you are always losing your phone, it might be a good idea to have a corded phone in at least one room in your home. If there were to be an emergency, you don’t want to have to search around the house for your cordless handset. Yes, you can push the page button to find the phone, but in some cases you don’t even have time to do that. You may want to have a corded phone hanging in your kitchen, for example, so when you need a phone in a hurry, you know right where to find one.

It’s really amazing to me how things change from generation to generation. When I was a child, the only kind of phone we had were corded phones. There was no such thing as a cordless. To my daughter, just one generation later, a corded phone is somewhat of a mystery to her. She doesn’t understand what the cord is for, and she certainly can’t stand to use it. To her, a phone is something you carry wherever you go, and there should be no treason to be tethered to the wall. I have had to put her on the corded phone and she had disconnected many calls trying to walk into the next room.