Scooters Trying Really Hard

There's still a landline phone in our house. We prefer it to the mobile. Cell service here is decent but with all the gadgets and a home solidly built, service is not always guaranteed to be the greatest.
About two years ago, our one "real corded phone" (in case of emergency and power outage) needed to be replaced. Since, I love old tech I went on eBay and purchased a nice wall mount black Bakelite rotary phone. I love the thing. Using it comes with an added bonus of not misdialing nearly as much and a certain sense that talking on the phone is a thing not to be taken flippantly. I like to refer to it as the "conversation" phone.
The phone's loud ACTUAL ring (bell and hammer) can be startling and especially to guests who don't know we have it. One friend was completely astonished after the phone rang because we had a land line and a "real" phone.

Maybe that's why I have tinnitus...those dang phones I grew up with. (Sorry -- I meant this to be a reply to Miss Cellania.)

Landlines are still the right choice in certain areas. We have to have a landline in our neighborhood because the cell service is really bad. It's a well known problem here, not something that's specific to us. We had VOIP for about a month: couldn't make or receive phone calls for hours at a time.

There's nothing wrong with landlines, but I bet few still have rotary phones on them.