Are "special features" complicating our lives? Do you know your phone number?

I don't even know how speed dial works on my land line. I just prefer dialing. Or maybe that is just part of me that refuses to come into the 21st century! Most of me is still back there! Not sure I want it all in this century! Funny you should say about "dial" or "press". my52cents. I had an old phone that i sold on Ebay - it had been in my family since at least about the time I was in 3rd grade as that is when I remember it being in the house and we weren't allowed to use it - mid 1960's. It was a rotary dial with a huge handset, real clanky thing. But it was in our house and used ever houe we lived in and that was quite a few! My sister took it once she moved out and it went back and forth between her and mom and I finally ended up wi it when she moved and didn't want it, so I sold it on ebay for $69! Point of this was, it still worked! So I plugged it in for my 6 yo GD and told her this is how I used to talk on the phone when I was your age. I showed her how to DIAL it and she thought that was the most funnest thing ever! It rang with a loud "clank" kind of ring (do phones ring with those anymore or is it always a song!?) She thought that was so neat that it rang back! and to hold that big clunky thing to her ear and hold it with her shoulder - so much easier than those little cell phones, she said! She just loved calling people on that phone! But now, my 18 mo GD, won't play with anything BUT a cell phone! I have an old one and I let her have it to play with and she will, but she refuses to talk to anyone on my hose land line phone - to big I guess! Oh, for the years of the past to have fun with!

Thing about the old "technology" - it was built to last. How long does a typical cell phone last? Seems my kids replace theirs pretty often. Of course I know the technology changes, and maybe throwing the things around doesn't help any, but I definitely believe that gadgets and appliances are rarely built to last these days. That old dial phone probably will last forever!

That's a cute story about your son, lilybug! Somehow I expect most parents have a similar story about their children these days.

I always dial them - except my daughters. Everyone else's I know. Although, I did know hers until she changed it a few months ago - just been to stresses to bother to learn it! But I do teach my home phone number to my GD - she doesn't know her own and not particularily a big deal - no one is ever at home anyway! But I always am!

My pleasure!!!!

Scary to think how much we are dependent on technology in so many ways! have a power outage nad there goes you landline nad your PC... then what!??!?!

Aahhhh, the pit falls of technology! And what if you use that voice caller thing-a-ma-jig while you have a cold - it mightnot recognize your voice!!!!!

I do! i do! I do keep a personal phone directory! Actualy 2 one is in a large daytimer nad one a little address book at my desk)

Remember those little address booklet thingys we all used to carry in our purses - we were lost without them!