New telephone

We bought a cordless phone sometime last year. Eventually it stopped taking a charge. (We only paid something like $15 for it. Piece of junk.)

We had a corded phone, it was doing ok, but on my return from the first trip to Buffalo, the phone would not dial. You press the buttons, they didn't do anything. It just sits there with a dumb look on it's face. It was difficult to not slam it down on the cradle, beat on it, or inflict other harm to it. (I won't rule any of that out as the cause of the trouble in the first place.)

Anyhow, today we bought a nicer cordless phone set. It's a Uniden 2 phone system with answering machine. (That's right, my answering machine will no longer hang up on people just as they are leaving their phone number...) We bought a system that allowed both units to be used at the same time. We didn't want something that prevented phone #2 from being used while phone #1 is being used. This means you can now talk to 2 of us at once.

We nearly bought a panasonic model, there was only one left at the store, the box had been opened. We'll see how this model does.