What fucking MORON designs a telephone so that you can’t replace the CORD????
I have an important phone call to make in half an hour. I don’t trust a mobile phone in this house to not drop in the middle of the call, so I went out and bought a basic land-line phone and a 25-foot phone cord so I don’t have to stretch one across my office to my desk.
I take the phone out of the box, unravel it’s cord to remove it and plug in the 25-footer… and you can’t detach it! I’m stuck with the 6 feet or so of cord that comes with it and not enough time to go buy another one. And any other I buy is likely to have the same issue, since the store only stocks the one brand (GE. GE for crying out loud! Who at GE would be that stupid?)

Edit: And to top that off, to call from 817 area code to 972 area code (across town) the phone company considers this “long distance”. Since I didn’t get long distance service with my land line (I only got it for the DSL) I can’t make the call.