I chuckled after seeing what my wife inscribed next to Andrew Van Dam’s July 2 Department of Data column, “Barely a quarter of Americans still have landlines. Who are they?” [Business]. She wrote: “Steven Grogan.”
The column pondered why “the Northeast is the last place to give up its landlines.” Being originally from that region, I know it’s one part of the country where people more frequently think about contingencies. They lock their doors and probably rely on multiple means of transportation. Or maybe the Northeast has the highest concentration of baby boomers who, like me, might still use their rotary phones attached to the kitchen wall if they had the chance.
Steven M. Grogan, Fairfax