I tried to call my house the other day to no avail. It wasn't because no one was there, it was because I had forgotten the number to my home phone.

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I don't think I'm alone in that regard. The cell phone plans are so inexpensive, who needs a landline? I rarely use mine. The only people that call it are telemarketers and wrong numbers. Yet I still remember my home phone numbers from when our family lived in Virginia, Durham, and most of the 13 places I've lived in the Seacoast since graduating from college.

In fact, "a recent poll by a Broadband company showed 38 percent of those asked could not remember their number, and that half kept a landline only as a means of getting access to the internet or to streaming TV services".-Tech Digest

The same poll showed that more than 1/3 of those polled ignored their landline phone when it rang, and making calls was only 5th on the reason to have one. People prefer to stay in touch via texting, Facebook and Twitter and other social media.

So RIP the landline phone. Soon to go the way of the public phone and the phrase "drop a dime".

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