I know which kind of phone you meant - I actually have a corded phone and it's near my bed. I had completely forgot until you said that because (practically) I never use it - my husband insists it can't sit close enough to the bed to reach it without getting up (for reasons that have more to do with cord length and the position of the jack than for health purposes). I got it for times when the power is off (which happens kind of a lot where I live) and it's also the parent to my cordless handset (they came together in the box).
I've heard of ghostly noises through electronics devices but my house has been set up this way since we moved into it nine years ago. One thing that has changed significantly in the past couple years however, is the number of computers I have. Before I started back to college I didn't have need for more than one computer, but when my new laptop's fan went out right at the start of classes I realized I would need a backup so I bought another one while that was in the shop. Then my husband was in the hospital and I bought one of those fancy tablet computers with a Windows 8 operating system - I got it for portability but it was heavy and quite clumsy because it required the use of a separate keyboard (either that or having to use the tablet's keyboard which is a royal pain for typing anything more than a few words). So then I got one of the convertible laptop/tablet, which is perfect and I use it for just about everything. But then, for some reason I decided I needed a desktop which turns out to be the only one that practically never gets used.
I now have three laptops, one laptop/tablet, a tablet, and a desktop - my son is using one of my laptops but when a friend asked to borrow one I literally didn't have one to spare (except the desktop) - I use all of the others every day. I also got android tablets for all my grand kids and a laptop for my oldest grandson and they bring all of those plus their game systems - playstation, x-box, and wii - every time they spend the night here (they're in there playing on them right now since it's a long weekend). Considering how small my house is you could say I'm completely surrounded by wi-fi.
So you could be right, but if not at least you've given me a good excuse for being such a kook, lol.
ARC
PS - The more I think about that Harper Lee book, I can't help but wonder if it had some ulterior motive. I mean, it seems to do more for condoning the condoning of segregation than it does for the idea of DEsegregation, as though it's the poor white supremists suffering from strife within their own families that are in need of repair, and to the degree of condoning the backhanding of a young woman for attempting to answer to the warning of her own "watchman". And I can't help think about how many white families might have been torn apart by this same issue and how many white supremists might have found themselves alone in their beliefs (maybe rightfully so) if not for this popular (in its day) book - and at the same time the author and her own family are exempted as being "color blind". I've never believed it true about the newly freed slaves being ignorant - I've never doubted that they would have had their own underground network of information and they were certainly present and listening intently during all "important" talks, such as politics. Maybe that was the real threat to the "supreme white race", just knowing everything they'd talked about without paying any regard to the servants who were present. They wouldn't have been seen as a threat until after being freed and then, right away it would have started to become evident just how much they knew.
ARC
