Do you have a clear picture in you mind when you heard the name “cordless phone”? Do you honestly imagine a phone without any cords and wires, more like a mobile phone, or does a different picture pop up in your mind?  Well, to be honest, long time ago, before I saw the thing myself, I pictured it more like a mobile phone, but then…I simply found out just a couple of days ago…that…hello, there are still sophisticated people who fell for the same trap…

The story started when the fixed line phone at home did not work properly.  We asked our landlord to change the phone and he came to us carrying a set of black cordless phone.  You know, the ones with two parts, the cordless handset with a set of dials, and the main unit where the handset “sits”, with its own dials.  Anyway, maybe it was the connection that was sooo bad, this phone also did not work properly, or so we thought.  So my dear dear house mate decided to borrow the office phone unit for the weekend, checking whether it would work.  His office phone, accidentally, is also a cordless phone.  Slightly different from the other phone, this one only has dials on the handset, so it looks a lot like one the ancient huge mobile phones and their desktop chargers. 

To make the story short, on the second weekend that my house mate borrowed the office phone, he returned on Monday morning, carrying the unit in a plastic bag and handed it over to the secretary.  Everything seemed to go well for the rest of the day, until he went next door, where the phone and the secretary sit, and the girl came up to him and said,

“Sir, the phone did not work all day long.”

 

He simply asked the first thing that crossed his mind (though he first thought it’s a bit silly of him to ask), “Did you plug the phone line in?”

The answer, “What phone line?”