Carnie's Comments

 

I got mine a few weeks ago. I haven't looked at it yet.

The new phone books our out!

Remember how exciting it was when we were kids when the new phone book arrived? I'd check to make sure our family's number and address were in the book and then check out the restaurant menus in the yellow pages. These days I check to make sure I'm NOT in the phone book.

The new books are about half as thick as they used to be. The number of landline telephones continues to decline.

It was a few years ago that I got some great reaction when I posted a photo of my new phone book on social media.

A long-time friend of mine said, "I haven't had one of those in years. Where do you get them?"

One guy suggested we could rename the Direct West phone book to "Direct to Recycling".

Another friend of mine commented, "They still make these?"

The best comment was from a friend who wrote, "The phone book. A lot of characters but not much of a plot!"