"I suppose I should drop the land line."

We wanted to keep that old number, and have barely started using cell phones, so almost no one has the numbers and it was easy to abandon one of them for the port over. Montana still has only the one area code for numbers issued here (406) but now that so many variations exist (it used to be "1" or "0" in the middle indicated area code) that we now have to use the entire 10 digits, even for local calls.

We have family from Scottsdale living on Whidbey Island, WA, and they had such trouble getting phone and cable and internet, they have numbers forwarded to other numbers, I don't even know which are the "real" numbers for reaching them.