Good morning Everyone!
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Some of you probably remember using phones where the receiver was attached to the main phone with a wire that kept you close to the phone when you were using it. In order to figure out the range of the cord, you needed to look at the length described on the package and then mentally decrease it by 1/3 to compensate for the way even the best phone cords tangled.
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To those of us who were slaves to the cord, the cordless phone was revolutionary! You could talk to your friends and family on a cordless phone and still move around the house! It was astonishing. The cordless phone allowed us to talk on the phone and still cook, dust, fold clothes, iron and let the dogs in and out of the house. It rocked!
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At our house, we always like to have the latest, greatest electronics (well, some of us do – for myself, I’m drawing the line at Blu-ray DVDs) so, of course, we have cordless phones. Our favorite type for the last two decades or so has been the AT&T Dect 6.0. It does everything you would expect a household cordless phone to do in the modern era – it has three handsets expandable to 12 (not that we’ll ever have or need a house that big!), takes messages, has an intercom feature and lets us have caller id and call waiting when we are willing to get off our wallets with the phone company and pay for them. They also have one other, non-advertised, talent – they are extremely gifted at camouflage. In fact, if the Russians ever invade the great state of Alabama, my three cordless handsets will be the last thing they will be able to find!
We have three people in the house, so you would think keeping track of a cordless phone would be easy – one phone, one person – but it’s not. Take for example, this seemingly innocent couch top.
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Yet, upon closer inspection (usually accompanied by a fair bit of mental censorship as we hunt for the phone while its ringing), you find the following:
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I believe that certain of the handsets have their favorite hiding spots. I thought this one was particularly clever the other day.
For the casual observer:
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For the accomplished phone set hunter:
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Sometimes I think the poor things just get cold, and need to warm up. When that happens, their favorite room is my daughter’s room. For example, take a look at my daughter’s sheets from the other morning:
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A careful search (by me, not her) revealed the following:
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Sometimes all three handsets have decided to hide in her room!
I also think the handsets are capable of developing their chameleon-like abilities. Handset 2 had been missing for about five days, and we thought we had searched everywhere, including in this box right beside the phone.
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Today, however, I happened to drop something on the floor, and reaching down to pick it up, noticed the following:
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I can’t wait to see what they come up with next! [I think!]
Have a great day everyone!
Nancy
Tales from the Mom-Side 
And here I thought I was the only one to walk around searching as it rang and rang! Glad I am not the only one to have a phone that seems to just grow legs and walk away!
So you know the feeling too, huh?
Nancy