Busy Signals

Can you remember the last time you called a friend on the phone and heard a busy signal? Yeah...for most people it's been awhile. However, my wife had the experience just the other night. She was trying to call her parents at their little lake cabin on the land line. Cell phones don't work there because the cabin sits deep in a Tennessee holler. My wife was stuck. The phone line was busy.

We then reminisced about the days when you always had to call back over and over again, until the beep-beep-beep-beep beeped no more. Waiting for a line to free up seemed like hours. As a kid, all I wanted to do is ask a friend what our homework assignment was, but I knew his sister would stay on the phone all night and I would never know if I was suppose to do the odd or even math problems. Argh!

Maybe you had some of those fancy phone features growing up, but most people I knew didn't. Now, it comes pretty standard on cell phones, and the only time we use a land-line at home is for 911. It made me think about something else. I wonder how long it will take my 2 year old son to hear his first busy tone. With technology moving the way it is today, is it possible that he will never hear it?