WTF Are These Yellow Books On My Doorstep?
 
October 18, 2009
 
So I am leaving my house the other day and on my doorstep I find two of these big yellow books with hundreds of pages of phone numbers and addresses. Someone apparently just left them there for me, as if by having a doorstep I had somehow implied that I wanted them. Has anyone seen them before? Do you know what they are? They appear to be some sort of google search/information service in book format. And it has basically every phone number and address in the state. Strange, why would I need a list of every phone number in the state? I am kind of annoyed about it because they are taking up a lot of room in my paper recycling box.
 
Update - Someone just emailed me and told me these are called "PHONE BOOKS." Apparently it's some sort of prehistoric way of finding phone numbers. Are there really still people out there without the internet that cannot simply google the information they need? Do we really need a company out there cutting down trees to make paper, using tons of ink to print thousands of phone numbers in the tiniest font in the history of writing, and then driving around the country to put these huge unwanted yellow books on the entire worlds' doorstep? And since when is it okay for a company to have a product that is so unnecessary that they give it to everyone for free, even if you don't want it?
 
Perhaps it is time for us to tell the people who make these books that... and there is no easy way to say this, but - I still like you as a friend and everything so don't take this the wrong way. It's me, not you. We've grown apart, that's all. I've moved on. I am finding my phone numbers in other ways and... well, I want to break up. Don't cry, okay? Shhhh. Look, I really have to run, I have a call I need to make and I still need to google the number, which is going to take me at least, like, 5 seconds. I'll see you around, okay?
 

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