Should I cut the wire
After learning, this afternoon,that long term family friends have given up their land line, I have to rethink certain things. Was it a way of surrendering their phone line, but not the phone number? Here is the thing. The telephone company does one thing, consistently. They raise their rates, year after year. Nothing else seems to change.
If I take a few moments to consider my own landline, I also protest the increasing rates. And the landline makes sure that I get phone calls, every day. Not just much of real value. There is that caller that comes up each week, looking for an old friend. The one that had this number, a decade ago. There is the credit card fixer, this week, a new caller. The customer support person from Walmart. Pardon me if I seem skeptical. My Amazon calls. Come on. Is that the best you can do?
Obviously, I am torn over the idea of getting rid of my landline. Can I handle the stress of wondering about the charge state of my cellphone? What if I need to call 411? And that tattoo on my arm (not a real tattoo). Please, Bell, reach out to me and show me why my landline is important. Don”t cede my place in the world to anonymous callers with something to sell. Or steal. How will the eventual caller with my first free million find me, when the landline is gone? Will a cellphone work during a rain storm? I have heard rumours. I will keep in touch wit friends who have gone into the next century.
