sign ot the times i guess........

88-1175 · Apr 2, 2017

got a phone book in the mail yesterday,get one yearly tho,seems like every year the print gets smaller,and it does,but this book seems really small,picked it up today to see if my dads number is correct and theres no white pages in it.the white pages are our local county house numbers,which I did away with 4-5 years ago.looks like cell phones are the new normal,it also dawned on me that I haven't looked a number up in the phone book for a lllloooonnnngggg time,maybe a few years.in my world all my friends,docs,and frequent business's are contacts,google for the rest.......

Billy Shafer · Apr 2, 2017

I get those things every year. They go straight to the trash. If I want to talk to anyone in town. I drive over and see them.

JOCCO · Apr 2, 2017

Feel pretty much the same way. Only issue is trying to look someone's number up can be quite hard to get. Plus they change cell numbers and companies like we do our socks!!!

kcm.MN · Apr 2, 2017

Guess I'm old-school. Still keep and use our "paper books".

flying belgian · Apr 2, 2017

Yep we get one every year. Still put it in the top desk drawer like I have for the last 50 years but I don't think I have looked a number up in that book for maybe three years. Just can't bring myself to throw them in the trash. What's wrong with me??

Old Scovy · Apr 2, 2017

I have saved my phone books for years and give them too a Amish boy. He likes to shoot his Bow and Arrow at them. Just what he proves I don't know but he has been doing it for a lot of years now. I should think he had out grown it by now.

Gambles · Apr 2, 2017

Speaking of changing times...it kinda reminds me of what I experienced a few years ago. The local college gives out a meal and a free dictionary to the top kids in the high school class. My kid was there and when they handed out the large dictionary, all the other kids just looked at each other and acted like it was something that they had never used.

pete black · Apr 2, 2017

In nw al there are two seperate books, white one and yellow one. No not talking about corn cobs.

paul · Apr 2, 2017

I'm still old school, use mine about once a week for a number.

Can't really contact people that don't have a landline, thry just have to live without me.

Paul

Ray · Apr 2, 2017

My new phone book says "large print version",but the print is actually smaller than the old book.

Stroby · Apr 2, 2017

....a lot of people think life is easy.....Haha.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 2, 2017

I don't know about the print size but I do know 100 lb sacks of feed have gotten a lot heavier in the last 20 years.

JLG · Apr 2, 2017

The internet and smart phones have made the yellow pages all but obsolete. I'm a roofing contractor. We used to get most of our new leads off our yellow page ads. They kept offering discounts to make our ads bigger, and the ads were working, so after a while I had half page ads in the "Roofing", "Siding", and "Window Replacement", sections in 2 counties. Our secretary asks people, when they call in, where they got our number. About 3 years ago we realized most new leads now were coming off the Internet and very few were saying yellow pages. We cut our ad sizes in half. This year I finally pulled all of them. Spent that money instead to be at the top of the page when someone Google's "Roofer".

Leroy · Apr 2, 2017

I have NO IDEA how to find a phone number on the internet.

sign ot the times i guess........

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