Telephones, those old fashioned things that used to sit in the corner - one per house! No in this house we have a phone in every room divided between business and private lines, so I never know which phone to pick up. Then of course we have mobile phones each and everyone one of us, with enormously complicated large numbers.
Today, one phone revealed in the kitchen (the one that wasn't working) that my daughter had left a message, fish my mobile out from the bottom of my bag, battery dead, recharging as I write. Use spare mobile to phone her only to end up waking my grandson (at 10 a.m) at uni, yes I had forgotten that the family had swapped all their phones as they upgrade to better ones, ones you can speak into for text messaging....
P explains (once more) the system, look out for the little yellow marker on the phones, and the answering phone system which also confuses me......
We also have another technological crisis looming on the horizon, the cottage is going to get broad band by the end of this month, but at the same time we are upgrading BT broad band in this house (this was a fatal mistake to do at the same time) cos we don't know where the little package with cables that arrived yesterday goes!
The tv is now accepting the dongle for internet transmission, one success to date but we now wait for the upgrade.... Life in our modern society is too complicated, especially packing fragile birthday presents this morning which is taking ages but that is another rant...
No one says their number any more when they answer the phone do they. Neither do I to be fair but it's something else we've lost.
ReplyDeleteHi Em, I do remember my 3 figure childhood telephone number, but not my mobile. Think I had a cross 5 minutes yesterday over phones, it is just all the complications that go with them...
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