1 We finally lost the landline tech altogether, and have only a cell phone for the "home" phone. I mounted a little pocket on the kitchen wall over the attachment plate for the old phone, and hung the cell there. I still don't want it in my bedroom.

2 We have always had a landline in our bedroom. In the middle of the night it's better than stumbling around the house trying to get to the phone.  Because you KNOW if it rings then, it's an emergency. Like when my dad was taken to the hospital and they couldn't get hold of my sister. 

Now, I bring my cell up there, turn off the sound, and lay it face down for the night.  It's a secondary emergency device if the landline is down or out, I can always text or call if I need to. 

I don't ever look at anything on the phone when I'm in my bedroom, just have it handy for if it's needed. If it was my only line, I'd leave the sound on for phone, but turn off all other sounds.  But that's just me. heh.

3 I sleep with my iPhone, of course.  It's my alarm, music to fall asleep to, Netflix if I want to take in a show while getting ready for bed...  but I rarely check my email for Facebook.  Okay... rarely means sometimes, but there's no related anxiety.

Dadgum researchers.

4 iPhone next to the bed, sound off, face down. Yep. Landline is still there but the only time it "rings" it's telemarketers and other "loosers." And the "ring" is "silent." I'm running out of "sneer" quotes so I'm leaving "now."

5 I dropped my land line about five years ago...didn't need it anymore. I put my iPhone in my bedroom at night, sometimes, turned way down, just in case I need to call 911 to report I've just killed an intruder. Stretch is the ultimate alarm. Nothing gets past him, and I mean nothing. Heck, he hears the mailman four blocks away. Also, no way you can oversleep when you're sleeping with a dog.

It is turned way down because, generally, the only calls I receive in the middle of the night are from drunk dialing friends. I'll return the call tomorrow, if you know what I mean.

The way I see it, not much I could do about an emergency until morning anyway. Most of my people live out-of-town.

6 Yabu, since I have kids who live in a different city - last thing I want is to wait until morning to find out there was a emergency...  Even if I couldn't be right there, I'd be making plans to get out of Dodge on the first flight headed that way...

Otherwise I think the story should have ended with

Get off my lawn! 

It would then be perfect.

7 I hear you and completely understand. When my phone goes off in the middle of the night...I always hope it's a drunk dialer. What did people do before the latest and greatest communications?

Down here we say, "get outta my yard", just so you know, ain't no lawns down here, just yards. Bwahahahahahah!

I truly understand...gotta answer the call, unless the display says "Drunk Dialer".

Seriously, when my phone, or the Juju Woman's phone "rings" in the middle of the night, it tightens us up. I received a call a couple of weeks ago from the drunk dialer only to be told that a good friend of mine who lives in a different city had taken his own life. That's another story. Could it have waited to morning? No. We were packed and ready to leave as soon as possible.

I'm getting better at it, but the problem I have is remembering to put my cell on the bedside table. Gotta answer all of 'em.

8 Luckily I don't get too much by way of drunk dialing calls.     So when the phone does ring of course panic is the first thing that happens.

So sorry about your friend.  There's nothing worse than getting that kind of news. *sigh*

9 I kicked the phone out of the bedroom years ago.

Talking is simply not what that room is for.

10 I have a landline for those awful 5AM phone calls we get when something goes sideways.  My husband keeps his cell on his dresser plugged in and on... the answering service calls that line when he has an emergency.  My phone I turn off and plug in to charge every night in the kitchen.  I need time to decompress...

11 Bou - those are the calls we all dread, but have to leave the phone on to receive.  *sigh*