Managing My Phonebook
Monnie and Walt were talking about managing their mobile phone contacts list, so I decided that, since I hadn’t purged my phonebook since about 1995, I would delete my old contacts too.
Almost immediately I came across the name of my maternal grandmother, who we lost a few years ago at the age of 95. I stared at the name for a while and thought how much I would love to just press “call” and talk with Grandma about Tammy, the kids, the price of gas…
Grandma Ethel, as we called her, was always smiling and she loved to laugh at my jokes. One of my favorite things to do was to enjoy one of her home-cooked meals while talking and laughing with our family. I remember once making her laugh after she took a sip of tea, and from then on, I would try to cause her to spit her tea out!
There were several other numbers in my phone for friends and family that were no longer around to talk to. Tammy’s grandmother (she passed on in 2006), my favorite aunt (we miss you Aunt Alpha!), and a co-worker who died of cancer a couple of years back.
So, as I stared at Grandma’s name and number, I decided to try this some other time. Deleting her number just seemed like saying that I didn’t want to talk to her any more. I think I’ll leave some of these old numbers in my phone for just a while longer…