Hold the Phone

It was a sad day…my cordless phone died…it had lived a good life…facilitated some good conversations…never spread gossip…only got lost a few times…which…I must say…is better than me…but…I digress.

So…the phone died…and…I did what I had to do…no…I didn’t Google…I know…I Google everything…but…for this…Google couldn’t help me…now that doesn’t mean that I didn’t do my research…I did…it was just hands on.

I went to the local store…and…checked out all of the available models…now…most people shopping for phones…are checking out the features…which one makes coffee…which one
fetches the newspaper
…then…they look for how many drone phones it has…that kind of thing.

jane on the phoneMe…not so much…I looked for the largest handset…and…I actually tried them all out…right there in the store…cradling each one…between…my ear and right shoulder…to see which one would fit…without slipping out.

I know…this sounds like a strange criterion for selecting a phone…checking out Consumer Reports…would seem like a wiser strategy…but…in all honesty…next to the fact that it was
cordless…this was the only thing that mattered to me.

After Chiari surgery…my neck isn’t as supple as it once was…and…holding a phone…just really isn’t comfortable for me…it’s a nerve damage thing.

So…reading about it…even…when it says that it has a larger handset…when did they stop being receivers…is not the same thing…as trying it out…and that’s just what I did…even
though…they were secured with pullout cables…I managed to get them into the talking position.

I can only imagine that I looked strange to passersby…but…kinda like checking out the mattresses…before buying a bed…it had to be done.

Luckily…I found the perfect phone…it fit just fine…they had one…exactly…one…in stock…I brought it home…where…I discovered…it had other features…an answering machine…which I don’t need…so…I turned it off…but…there were some cool things…it talks to me…that’s right…the phone talks…telling me who is calling…and…not only that…since it is larger…everything is larger…I can actually see the numbers…and read the screen…without my readers and a magnifying glass…who knew it would be so neat.

Okay…so…I’m happy as punch with my new phone…except for one thing…it isn’t ringing…come on…call me…I want to hear it talk.

Originally posted June 7, 2012