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Widow rented rotary phone for 42 years
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| 9/14/2006
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Posted on 09/14/2006 7:42:49 PM PDT by annie laurie
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To: Samwise
Granny may not have quite understood what was going on. So why didn't the kids taken care of this earlier?That was my first reaction, too, but many older people are (understandably) reluctant to give up their autonomy, and want to keep being responsible for themselves as long as they can ... sometimes it can be difficult to convince them to even let others LOOK at their bills, much less take over paying them & such.
Often not an easy situation for anyone concerned.
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posted on
09/14/2006 7:59:23 PM PDT
by
annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: annie laurie
What's that you say sonny?
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posted on
09/14/2006 7:59:46 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Incorrigible
Looks like a relic from a 1950's beauty salon ;-)
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:00:35 PM PDT
by
annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: leda
While I thought at&t's rental rates were silly, I would gladly pay $200 to purchase one of those old phones. They worked. The new ones are garbage.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:01:42 PM PDT
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
To: annie laurie
I must just be pushy. We just gave my folks the phones and told them when we'd be over to rewire the house. :^
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:02:05 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
To: Samwise
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:03:04 PM PDT
by
annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: annie laurie
Did she rent a rotary modem to go with the Phone?
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:04:13 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
To: patton
Yarborough's Antique Mall in Jackson, Tennessee had a bunch of the black 1930 type rotary telephones fitted with a new jack and wires for sale. I bought four of them at $180 each. When lightening struck my home, all the digital phones in the house were fried and the old suckers still were operational.
To: USNBandit
I switched to Verizon from Cingular after they bought AT&T. I thought Cingular was not very good, but so far in my location (DFW), Verizon is worse. Cingular is trying to collect $180 from me for ending my contract after 2 years.
I love cell phones, but much of it is a racket like airlines penalizing you for not booking 14 days in advance and making any changes at all after booking. They all seem to just make up their own rules at will and change them at will also.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:20:37 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
To: annie laurie
When I started looking after my aging parents in the early 90's, I discovered that they were also paying "rent" on their rotary phone.
They were paying something like $4 or 5 a month for an outdated phone for many years. I pointed out to them that you could buy a decent phone for $20.
I think they had already paid hundreds of dollars in rent for theirs.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:25:34 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
To: annie laurie
The reason they don't just 'give' customers the phone is because they can still charge them!!! AT&T had been line item billing this thing for decades and people had no freaking idea it was on there. Its just a case of 'if they don't ask, we won't tell' and AT&T isn't about to give a sucker an even break.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:28:02 PM PDT
by
bpjam
(Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
To: annie laurie
> $29.10 a month
I question this.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:38:27 PM PDT
by
old-ager
To: vetvetdoug
> the old suckers still were operational
They don't contain any semiconductors. Only wire, insulation, plastic or a pre-plastic material, paper, glue, cloth and metal.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:40:16 PM PDT
by
old-ager
To: stlnative
Fallon, Nevada. Which isn't really rural.....The got their own Super-Wallymart. :)
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:42:35 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: garyhope
With cell phones I have found it is not the company you like the most...it is the one you hate the least.
I might be mistaken, it may have been Cingular.
I have Sprint which I know lots of people hate. I have stayed with Sprint because they have the best coverage on the local interstates. I don't want my wife to have the car break down without coverage.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:46:15 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: annie laurie
My parents rented a night light from Alabama Power Company for thirty years at $8.50 per month. That's only $3,060.00 dollars plus the electricity to operate it. I finally replaced it with one similar for under $40.00.
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:48:41 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
09/14/2006 8:50:20 PM PDT
by
annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: vetvetdoug
When lightening struck my home, all the digital phones in the house were fried and the old suckers still were operational.I'd like to go pick up one of thse old phones, maybe GoodWill has them. Our cordless is useless when the power goes out.
To: USNBandit
Thanks...
I live in a rural area in Illinois and I always wondered if Verizon would cut us off also. We only have one cell provider so Verizon owns the market here and there are enough subscribers in the area I believe. We have a small Walmart but it is about the size of a large drug store. They close at 8pm and at 6pm on Sundays.
Now if we would only get DSL here (which I am told will never happen in my lifetime.)
To: HairOfTheDog
try ebay if you cannot find one at Goodwill.
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