I find it necessary to call work from a public phone and press one number by mistake resulting in me having to “hang up” the receiver. Now it occurs to me, “The telephone requires a backspace key. There is a problem with this which in adding a backspace key a telephone will have thirteen keys and not twelve. Those who suffer from Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number thirteen) may not want to purchase “these” telephones. “This” invention starts a journey of looking at re-inventing the telephone such as flavored beepers, candy cell phones, and other obscure, wholly impractical inventions.