backwards technology

We don't have a cordless phone. They all got fried during a storm many moons ago. I guess I am too clinically depressed, antisocial, and maybe also lazy to get a new system.
I was talking on the phone w/ my mom and she wanted to review some web pages with me. At first I thought I couldn't b/c laptop was by couch and the phone in near the breakfast table.
Then it hit me. Duh. I have wifi - I can move the computer, then it hit me - how backwards, my computer is totally portable but none of my (ahem) 2 phones are. A wee bit retarded....