Emergency calls from the police, hospital, your father-in-law’s neighbor, or other number not in your contact database are often even more important than sleep.

Emergency calls from the police, hospital, your father-in-law’s neighbor, or other number not in your contact database are often even more important than sleep. But the damn robocallers have destroyed the primary use case of telephones. When I was a kid the phone was for “important” stuff, and “tying up the phone” with an unimportant conversation or 1200 baud modem was frowned upon.