My experience will telephones started with phones (always black) where one gave a number to an operator and she (almost always a female) connected you with your number. From there it went to dial phones (almost always black) to touch tone phones (pick your color). Long distance was a luxury limited to birthdays, etc., or emergencies. Now I have unlimited long distance minutes. Ten years or so ago I became a cell phone user.
Reading an article, Going Wireless, in the AARP Bulletin (It's an organization for people over 50 for those of you who aren't near that age) I was interested in some statistics they included. They claim that, for example, 17.4% of households in Minnesota, 16.7% in Colorado, and 11.4% in Wyoming are now wireless only. Farm states like Nebraska and Iowa seem to have a high percentage. The New England states are the lowest. Does this mean that it is easier to get a land line in New England and more difficult in Utah (25.5%)?
The only reason I think about this is because I wonder if the telephone directory will go the way of many daily newspapers-will there be only Yellow Pages? Will retailers go to strictly cell phones? Will there be a cell phone directory with Yellow (pick a color) pages?
Today while I was getting my car serviced, I talked to an old friend in Oklahoma. I didn't worry about long distance minutes; it was just a good way to catch up on things with my friend and made the time waiting for the car seem shorter.
Sometimes I think too much about nothing-however.
Another half inch of rain last night, rained off and on today, the sump pump is running, and I'm getting more serious about the ark.
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Your first stop in the ark may need to be in Littleton. It's sooooo green here.
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