Technology IS Great When It's Working
By MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (86024)
United States
August 28, 2025 9:44am CST
Happy Thursday Everyone! another beautiful day and it looks like it's going to be nice right through the weekend. Yay!
Last evening we put in a grocery order with Walmart for a delivery this afternoon. I realized this morning that I forgot something but Walmart always has a window to add things to the order until a certain cut-off time. So, I went in there to add to my order and it kept saying the site was having issues. As luck would have it, time ran out and I didn't get to add my stuff. The double whammy is the site is back up and working.
I'm probably one of the few people left on this planet who still has a landline phone. I've said it before but I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of it. I find myself using my cell more and more often so why am I paying to have a landline. The cost isn't that much each month but it's still money wasted at this point. What annoys me most is the ringing with scam calls. I've gotten to a point where I am almost shocked when it's a real call and someone I know 
While I've been sitting here trying to write my post the phone rang twice. Once was St. Jude and the other Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. Neither leaves a message and I can only assume it's a scam.
Anyway, it's time for me to end this rambling and hope everyone is having a good day.
While I've been sitting here trying to write my post the phone rang twice. Once was St. Jude and the other Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. Neither leaves a message and I can only assume it's a scam.
Anyway, it's time for me to end this rambling and hope everyone is having a good day.18 people like this
19 responses
@Marilynda1225 (86024)
• United States
28 Aug
I usually have good results with good ole wally and delivery certainly is convenient for me.
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@rebelann (114502)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Aug
The only problem I've had is not being able to add items once an order is placed. But anymore I've relied more on Instacart plus I can communicate with the shoppers via text if I need to add or change something, I can't do that on wally
@Marilynda1225 (86024)
• United States
28 Aug
Landlines are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
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@snowy22315 (195170)
• United States
28 Aug
My parents have a landline. I sort of do, as I have a second cell that plugs into a regular phone jack. I rarely use it, but friend is paying for it, and it does come in handy from time to time...mostly to call my cell when I have misplaced it..
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@Marilynda1225 (86024)
• United States
28 Aug
My landline is the old cordless kind that sits in a charger. I can carry it around which is convenient but if the power goes out so does the phone.
@YuleimaVzla (1739)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
22h
Never get rid of your landline phone, you never know when there will be a massive network outage and that being the only thing you have left to communicate is never a bad thing and it doesn't get in the way either.
@YuleimaVzla (1739)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
20h
@MarieCoyle It's great that you share that information. Well, here in Venezuela some lines are still used, but it's also discontinued. I don't even understand how to fill out some forms online or some.Applications still ask for a residential landline phone number, I think almost no one has one.
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@MarieCoyle (47759)
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16h
@YuleimaVzla
The sad thing is, here in the US there are elderly people who do not have internet, don't understand it, don't want to learn, and they are dependent on their landlines. When they go the way of having internet, of course the bill will increase and many simply cannot afford to pay more out in bills. I worry for them.
I have a 90 year old neighbor with a landline. He has no clue about the internet, and cannot learn, it's beyond him now. If his phone is shut off, he will be lost.
@LindaOHio (199219)
• United States
4h
I still have my landline and won't get rid of it. I hardly ever use my cell phone. I'm sorry you didn't get to add to your Walmart order. I hope you have a good weekend.
@celticeagle (179047)
• Boise, Idaho
22h
How aggravating. Sorry to hear about that. I had the same issue with the phone. I had had a land line for ages. I never thought I'd get a cell but I was listening to HSN one evening and Tracfone sounded so easy and affordable I went ahead. I love it! Having a cell phone now helps me in so many ways. I am so glad I got rid of the land line and got the cell.
@Manasha (2881)
• Pondicherry, India
10h
Ah, the joys of modern convenience—when it works! ?? That Walmart cutoff time has caught me off guard more than once too. It’s frustrating when the site acts up just when you need it, only to work perfectly again after the deadline passes. Murphy’s Law, right?
And you're definitely not the only one still hanging on to a landline! I have one too, and honestly, I ask myself the same question: Why am I still paying for this? The scam calls are the worst — I barely answer unless I recognize the number anymore. It's almost a surprise when it’s an actual person and not a robocall or random foundation calling at dinner time.
Anyway, your post wasn’t rambling at all — it’s just real life! Hope the rest of your weekend goes smoothly, and fingers crossed your next grocery order goes off without a glitch. ??
@Tampa_girl7 (53311)
• United States
28 Aug
I didn’t want to get rid of my landline , but it didn’t work half of the time.
@wolfgirl569 (121530)
• Marion, Ohio
20h
Sorry you couldn't get things added.
We haven't had a landline for many years.
@RasmaSandra (88448)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20h
All is fine here, I have neither landline nor mobile, Since I add some money to my finances every month from surveys and other stuff I have been wondering if it might be more helpful for my to not order once a month from Walmart but order two weeks at a time, Although I don't know if that is not spending too much on the delivery twice instead of once,
@JudyEv (361946)
• Rockingham, Australia
16h
We still have our landline but have issues with it from tme to time. We're starting to think about giving it up.
@MarieCoyle (47759)
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20h
I haven't had a landline phone in years and years, and I honestly don't miss having one at all. Like you said, all I really got on there was spam calls the last year. The only reason I kept it then was that I lived out in the country and at that time, there were not enough towers for the cells. The only time I could use my cell is if I went way, way out behind my house and stood by a big cornfield. Not exactly handy, and who wants to traipse through a 2 acre back lot in the pitch dark, with lots of coyotes and such around...not me. I was so glad to get rid of that phone. I left it in the house when I moved, because I knew the next person living there would have to have a landline, too.
@DaddyEvil (158175)
• United States
28 Aug
I got rid of our landline phone when I got my second cell phone. (The first cell phone was a bag phone. The second was a flip phone.) I switched the number from the landline phone to the flip phone and still have that number.
Thankfully, our phone company doesn't let most scam calls ring through. I do get a message on the phone that shows the number that tried to call and the notation "scam call" on the screen but don't hear any sounds from those calls.
I've told all my friends that if they change phone numbers, to send me a text message saying they changed numbers and I'll put them back in my phone's memory so they're calls come through.
@Beestring (15774)
• Hong Kong
28 Aug
I finally cut my landline a few years ago. As you said, I didn't use it at all, and what I got was just sales or scam calls.
