Viva la POTS

I've had every form of telecommunications service known to man in my house at one point or another. In spite of that, I have steadfastly refused to let Verizon "upgrade" the plain old telephone service on my main line with their FiOS offering. My stubbornness was vindicated this week, as I have lived without power in my house for 7 days now. I have no heat, no internet, marginal cell phone signal, but my telephone has worked flawlessly.

They will have to pry the POTS line from my cold, dead fingers.