The Phone from Hell

We have this cordless phone....

I think Brad won it at one of his Christmas parties a few years ago. As with most cordless phones in my experience, for the first year or so it worked great.

Now, the thing never works. Sometimes it will work for a grand total of about 3 minutes. Just long enough to scramble your way into the computer room to pick up the old school, reliable slinky-cord-phone.

But the worst thing about this phone? When it dies (which is a lot) it starts beeping.

Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.

It goes on and on and on and on and on until you put the thing back on the charger. You might think "Well, actually that's kinda cool. Then you know when your phone is dead."

Not when it goes off at 3:30 am.