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I do - only because it is included with my DSL internet - the only option out here in the sticks. Incoming calls are free. Outgoing calls are .10 per minute. I rarely use it. I have sketchy cell service and live in the boonies - 30 miles from town.
If I lose my smartphone, the dog eats it, or I drop it in the toilet (all have happened) I just call my oldest, tell him I'm OK and to pass the word that " the old man in the woods" will be without a cell phone until I can get to town.
I also have a flip-phone Tracfone I carry when I travel. I pay $99 for 400x 3(1,200) minutes and a year of service. The minutes roll over. Last I checked, I've got over 3,000 minutes of service built up. That thing works where my smartphone will not. I carry it as a redundancy since I have my contacts in that phone as well.
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The original Frito Bandito!
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I gave up about 15 yrs ago.
Hit it with weed eater, dogs chewing on the wires, me digging it up a couple times, the county mowers bush hogging the pedestal, Me bush hogging the pedestal, tree falling on the section over the creek.
Sheesh
Got the cilly one with the innernek on it. Who can figure out such devices?
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the wife has one at her office, also has a fax machine , some of her clients have been in business 60 years and don't plan on changing their ways very much
there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown-- " If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian
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Have a couple and a fax line.
Damn I am old.
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We still have one. The phone is located in our garage. I use it sometimes.
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We still do but thinking of dropping it, bad cell phone service here
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We do. Need it for internet and phone service here.
Here at the house and much of the surrounding are area has sketchy cell coverage.
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We started to cancel ours, but Windstream lowered our monthly payment so low, we decided to keep it for a while. They are losing so many customers from scammer calls, they are desperate. The only real calls we get are from older family members. The other 75% are from scammers. I hesitate to get rid of it totally........I guess it will happen some day.
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I gave up about 15 yrs ago.
Hit it with weed eater, dogs chewing on the wires, me digging it up a couple times, the county mowers bush hogging the pedestal, Me bush hogging the pedestal, tree falling on the section over the creek.
Sheesh
Got the cilly one with the innernek on it. Who can figure out such devices? Sheeet man.... Riding down a county road going to deer camp once, Saw a light pole that looked it had been cut down with a Luke skywalker light saber... ditches had been mowed. I’d eat lunch up the road at a little country store. Hot food / beer / bait type store. County crew was in there eating. I asked them which one got a hold of the light pole. Ol dude looking like Uncle Jessie put his head down. Said i did. 😂😂😂😂 Those hydraulic side cutters don’t play.....
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Yep. It will usually work when the cell wont.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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We got rid of it years ago when the fees got to be more than the use bill.
When cutting it off the way the guy was going on i thought i was going to have to get a lawyer,just to cut them off.
Have not missed it.
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Yep, same number since 1974!
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I bet y’all old timers are mind blown...
From the old crank phones...
“Mabel, connect me to the Hooterville store”
To “Siri, call Walgreens and order my geritol”
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Folks still have a land line, though I'm not sure why - 95% of the calls they get are robo calls or solicitations.
Personally, I haven't had a land line in at least 20 years.
l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue
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No cell service at the house so have land line. Can use cell phone with wifi calling so land line is for backup.
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No land kine even ran to our new house. They didn't even put them in the subdivision. We do have cable lines though so the internet is decent.
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I've got me one of them cell phones. I keep getting calls from some red dot injun telling me my car warranty expired.
I keep telling him the warranty on the Delta 88 expired in 1983. No sense adding a warranty now.
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Couldn't have internet without it.
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Land line? Not for years.
You fellas with landlines still have an answering machine hooked up to ‘em? With those little tiny cassettes?
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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