I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that use phone books, but I'm not one of them. The internet works just fine for me, without taking up a big ol' cabinet in my kitchen. That's an exaggeration, you say. No.
What do you think BellSouth would do if I called them up and asked them to please come and remove their litter from my doorstep? Because, even though I am not a customer of theirs or any other home phone company, today they dropped a gigantic bag of their books for me.
Growing up, there were The Yellow Pages in one big volume and then another, thinner volume that was the white pages.
Today, I'm looking at TWO volumes of The Yellow Pages. A-G and H-Z. And then a completely seperate, Spanish language Yellow Pages. And then the thickest book of all of them, which is called The Yellow Pages Companion. I have no idea what that is, except that it looks like just the two other volumes consolidated, making them obsolete.
Also, the cat wouldn't stop eating the Thanksgiving flowers as I took a photo of the phonebooks, so...
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