1 edit | Sounds like my grandmother... My grandparents bought a rotary phone through Michigan Bell back in the 70s I think. Roughly 30 years later and my grandmother still (grandfather died 14 years ago) uses it, though at least she hasn't paid for it for several years now. I can't convince her that she needs a new phone despite the fact that it's a static mess much of the time, she likes her volume control and not being able to understand people on the other end half the time. Plus there's the annoyance of menus where you have to press buttons. She can't hear it ring most the time either since she doesn't like wearing her hearing aid. >_
She had a cordless phone 12 or so years ago and it was crap so she never really used it, my uncle has a cordless phone that's at least six years old and that's not so great either, better than my grandmother's old one. But she doesn't seem to understand they've improved a lot more since then, at the very least have a volume setting, are hearing aid compatible and more importantly, you can carry it with you around the house. But many old people just hate change.... |
