Lara:

You are actually the only person I know now that still uses dial-up.

Up until 18 months ago, I had AOL and a 56 k modem.

Brother, when I got the dsl and I could talk on the phone at the same time, well glory be.

And I just got new phone features, like call waiting, etc. And today, the Verizon girl said "you do know that you have voice mail don't you".

Now THAT was a funny conversation. She gave me a phone number to call and I am supposed to activate my voice mail. So I called the number and a robot voice on the other end says: "We do not recognize you".

So I called back Verizon and said "the robot lady doesn't like me". She got hysterical and tried to help me. She said "Please press the number 2 on your phone, I have to make sure that you know you have touch tone service". I said "lady, I know the difference between touch tone and pulse". She laughed her head off. She checked the number and yes indeed, I was right. It seems they did not switch on my voice mail with Verizon until today so I can't activate it until tomorrow night.

See, I can still learn stuff.

lol Melody