Phone

If you have spent much time at Leina's house, you knew Leina's phone. You would be engaged in conversation, or lollygagging around in the dining room, when piercing electronic beep would jolt you to attention. This would be followed by subsequent amplified rings until Leina picked up the reciever of her telephone, which still had a cord connecting it to the main unit. Leina's old phone had large buttons and was, all agree, an old people's phone.

Her father had purchased it, and he was hard of hearing. But Leina's hearing, by most accounts, is excellent. She had been urged by multiple parties to abandon the old phone and get a new one. But she resisted, for over a year, until last week when she broke her answering machine by tripping over the cord--twice--while walking down the hall. She now has a very sleek modern model without a cord and with a normal ring volume.