The Quiet is Over
Today is a Thursday and what with the snow that we had on Sunday and Monday we had managed to keep busy. It wasn’t until Tuesday evening when Carrie popped off an email that she had tried to call us but always got a busy signal. Humph! On thinking about it we realized we had not had any tell-a-
marketing calls since the weekend. That also tells the story of how little Dennis and I use the phone. I had been keeping busy working on a binding for a scrappy quilt and Dennis was surfing his Facebook, checking out the RFD television channel and napping.
Wednesday evening I finally contacted Mediacom with the land line phone problem. Using my cell phone I checked multiple items that the gal on the other end of the line prompted me through. It was finally down to having a fellow stop by. This afternoon a Mediacom fellow spent a lot of time checking things in our home. Two old people and we have six options for picking up a land line phone. We don’t believe in needing to rush to pick up a phone call. Considering that we hadn’t even noticed the phones weren’t working, it brings a chuckle. Three are wireless, one is hard wired into the kitchen, one is hardwired into the bathroom and the sixth is a phone with a phone jack in the garage porch. Bringing in the phone from the garage porch and plugging it into the modem finally told the problem. The problem was the modem. It allowed internet and cable television but no land line. So here we are . . . totally hooked up. Within an hour, the tell-a-marketers were at it. The quiet is over. We have talked about letting the land line go. For the $19.00 a month we had decided cell phones are not what all the people our age are accustomed to. Amazing what can happen to our little world, and . . . we still getter done.