The Demise Of the Land Line

Do you have a land telephone line? We still do, and it is an increasing pain.

We get Indian scam calls at dinner time over it – well, to be fair to the Golly Golly Goshers, they do ring at other times as well, but the dinner bell is the most annoying. You know the drill – ring, ring, silence, ” Hello am I talking to whomever… ” and whether it is Lars Vaguelynorse or Linda Englishname they still have the Bombay steam room sound behind them and the Punjabi accent…

Well, you can be polite or rude or just hang up and go back to chewing, but it does disrupt the flow of table conversation. However, nothing beats the four calls in the middle of the night – spaced at 15 minute intervals – that have no connection whatsoever. They are either the screech of a fax connection or just silence – but the phone rings you out of sleep and then won’t let you back in.

Answer? Well the answer for the mobile pest is airplane mode after bedtime – they can’t get in to you then.

The answer for he landline may be that as well – though it comes in by modem along with the rest of the electronic signals. It is time to look at the box and see if there is a landline switch that can stop it after dark.