As I’ve previously said, we still prefer to use a landline instead of our mobiles. But we’re regularly made aware that this is very definitely the exception, not the rule. When we’re asked for our phone number, we proffer the landline number, but there’s often a follow up, along the lines of, “oh, don’t you have a mobile in case we want to text you?”. So, we give them a mobile number, usually with a request along the lines that we’d prefer to be contacted on the landline.
As if! There seem to be sections of society who don’t understand that it’s possible to have a phone number that doesn’t begin with “04”. When the call, comes, it’s invariably on the mobile, not the landline. Estate agents and tradies are the worst, of course, but they are by no means the only ones. Age seems to have something to do with it (that is, the 20-somethings are most prone to this habit), but this is by no means determinative.
I’ve resorted to stating in the voicemail message on my mobile phone that the caller ought to try our landline!
Musings and Mutterings 