Where's Ma Bell when you really need her?

Oh, here goes.

Once again, I had phone problems. Bad enough that my cell phone is so annoying [I'm waiting 'til Sept. to get a new one to avoid a $200 early cancellation fee], but now my home phone is competing for the title of' Most Likely To Cause Insanity'! I'd be talking to someone, and then they're not there, and the phone window says 'searching'. Well, aren't we all searching? for something?
Already a challenge to find the ringing phone..[" I think the ringing is coming from the couch cushions!"],push the correct buttons to connect before it automatically goes to the answering machine, and oh yes- the speaker so that Flo can hear the incoming conversation, but to add the unpredictability of the connection crashing...it was just too much!

I went to buy a new set of 'potentionally reliable' communication devices and got one which includes a stationary main phone [with a curly wire that stays attached to the main base]. Details later if you want to get in on the pool of exactly how many days it will take the spiraling cord to twirl itself into a mere shadow of its original length.] Oops! Too late! Already happened! Just kidding!

My 'new and improved' phone set also has 2 additional portables which means I can keep one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom, and with the non movable base in the living room...I shouldn't be searching for the sound of the invisible phone!![ in theory!].
I'm feeling such positive anticipation of a problem solved, and I'll let you know how it works out...Just as soon as my bail is posted for what happened when I couldn't figure out how to retrieve the three phones from the hermetically sealed - childproof - environmentally friendly - bullet proof PACKAGING that it currently lives in. Even the 'non- digitally- challenged' hero that rescued the aforementioned purchase from my bleeding hands...had some trouble with it. I think it's a plot!
Speaking of plots, I guess I'll just gather up the old phone set and add it to the 'Dead Zone' of the phone cemetery in the hall closet.
Talk to you soon...maybe.