Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <hcv1nb$a5
...@solani.org>, Kurt Busiek <k
...@busiek.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-11-05 05:17:40 -0800, mstem
...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael
>> Stemper) said:
>>> In article
>>> <4gl3f5hu717bq1kvl3k2medkufg1chd...@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>> Lawrence Watt-Evans <l...@sff.net> writes:
>>>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:20:19 +0000 (UTC), mstem...@walkabout.empros.com
>>>> (Michael Stemper) wrote:
>>>>> In article <d7g3f5lhahclg3kr0029v15a2o144vf...@4ax.com>, Don Aitken
>>>>> <don-ait...@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>>>> Living in a house without either telephone or TV.
>>>>> Actually, my first flat after I was out of college had neither. I
>>>>> didn't have any vacation time, so I couldn't take off from work for
>>>>> the telephone installer. If I needed to make a phone call, I'd go
>>>>> to the phone booth on the corner. I can't remember if phone calls
>>>>> were still a dime, or if they'd already gone up to a quarter.
>>>> My kids don't have home phones; they have cellphones and feel no need
>>>> for landlines.
>>> Sure, but this was 1976.
>>> By the the of the year, I won't have a landline, either.
>> I look forward to the day we won't have a land line, but the kids are
>> young enough that it's a good idea to have one, for now.
> We still have one, mostly for my use. Daughter has one, son-in-law
> has one, husband has one (which he hardly ever uses); but I can't
> make the damn things work. And I spend almost all my time in
> home, in bed, with the phone right here on the end of my bed
> table.
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