Anyone still have a home phone?

If so, why?

I've never had a landline in the 13 years I've been on my own. Haven't had cable in like 5 or 6. My brother had to get a landline for house arrest though. House arrest and fax. I think those are literally the only 2 reasons.

We have a home phone and a Ooma phone hooked up to the computer. No cell phones in this house. Call us old fashioned but never needed a cell phone before. If we happen to venture away from the house and you call, oh well the machine will answer it.

It's funny I use my landline but it's because I switched to DSL. It's more stable and I get faster transfer rates. I think because almost nobody is on it so it's Super fast.

Att sucks.... I miss ma bell

I use to have an old rotary phone I kept for power outages. When we loose power in storms the cordless phone is dead, but that old time rotary phone still worked.

Ive never owned a Cell Phone, and have had the same phone # since the 50s.

I have a phone bundled with my cable. I got the bundle for less than if I didn't take the phone.

VILEPLUME said:

If so, why?

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I don't know why I keep it since we each have a cell phone. It's 20 bucks a month and the number is on a lot of my bills and shit. Wife needs a land line for no reason either. Habit is the best answer.

I keep one for collect calls, just in case.

had this number since 1980, don't feel like learning another.

Of course I do .How else will I be able to keep in touch with random scammers from India. Always brightens my day.

I love the fuckers who pretend to phone from Microsoft. Ask them to hold, then just put the phone down, where they can hear a little noise from you going on about your business, otherwise, they think the line went dead and hang up. After 3 minutes or so, tell them you are nearly done, rinse and repeat.

We ditched ours about 8 years ago. We got sick and tired of subsidizing the telemarketing industry.

This is Africa, place is so fucking retarded, you have to have a landline if you want ADSL.

Who here remembers the 3 number party line?

VILEPLUME said:

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I am legal guardian of my older sis who is handicap.....I have a land line connected to an old black rotary phone on my desk .....same number since my parents first got married....gotta be close to 50 years ....it's 522-7..........wait that's probably not necessary......it never ever rings and my sis has a cell phone and can use it with no issues ......so basically it's totally pointless except my mother who passed when we were young loved that number because of how easy it was to remember......I should call it for fun.

NrthrnMichigan said:

Who here remembers the 3 number party line?

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missed it by a month ,I moved into a place years ago that just got off the party line the previous month

420God said:

I keep one for collect calls, just in case.

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Damn, thanks I had no clue! Gotta memorize the neighbors number!

Indacouch said:

I am legal guardian of my older sis who is handicap.....I have a land line connected to an old black rotary phone on my desk .....same number since my parents first got married....gotta be close to 50 years ....it's 522-7..........wait that's probably not necessary......it never ever rings and my sis has a cell phone and can use it with no issues ......so basically it's totally pointless except my mother who passed when we were young loved that number because of how easy it was to remember......I should call it for fun.

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Well it could be valuable in an emergency.

NrthrnMichigan said:

Who here remembers the 3 number party line?

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I remember *69

And not just the tune by REM.

And call waiting. God damn, I hated that shit. Refused to have it on my phone. Somebody would call me, talk 2 seconds and then say, "Hang on...gotta call on the other line" and flip over.

I'd hang up on their ass.

They'd call me back: Why'd you hang up?
I'd say, "You called me, not the other way around. You put me on hold after you call me, then the call couldn't have been that damn important, so I'm not wasting my fucking time listening to your dead air."

Lost a couple friends over that...but to this day, if you call me and ask me to hold, I hang the fuck up.

Just call back when you have to time to say what's on your mind. Stop wasting my time with your bullshit.