And it’s fixed again

Well, when my phone went out on April 22nd, I couldn’t get a technician to come for 2 weeks, reportedly because they didn’t have enough remaining techs trained in the old copper wiring. But when I contacted them again this Saturday, I got a tech on Monday morning. He couldn’t find anything wrong with the jack; he just replaced the connectors on the cord, and it was all fixed. Weird — the original cord lasted nearly two decades, but the replacement lasted 7 months.

I think if this happens again, I’ll try to find a really long phone cord I can buy, rather than going through all this rigmarole to get a technician. (I thought of moving the phone closer to the jack, but there’s no good outlet available near there.)