The old-fashioned wall mount telephone in the basement was somehow off the hook today even though no one had touched it. We almost never use it so it wasn’t the first place I looked when the phone line wouldn’t work. In fact, I had already checked outside and determined that the problem was inside the house when The Wife reminded me that we had a second phone line in the basement in addition to the one in I was thinking of. We still “need” a land line; but, sometimes, it can be a lot of trouble.