Re: I got a phone book delivered

patbz · ‎03-10-2010

The last time I saw "real" phone books (residential and commercial listings) was in 1998 when I was getting my parents home ready to put it on sale. Parents lived in Silver Spring so they had books for MD suburbs, D.C., and VA suburbs; when stacked, they were probably 18" tall!

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

Found a good use for it before it went into the recycle bin. Bye, bye spider. 👋

tototwo · ‎03-09-2010

I wish we'd get a phone book!!! I've kept the last one we got dated 2014, but it's really not helpful anymore. How in the heck do you look up a phone number of a person (not a business)? You can't get numbers from an 'information' operator anymore.

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Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

@Laura14 I can't remember the last time I got a phone book! I use to call for my mother to have books delivered to her.

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

I get a phone book delivered every year. I don't see it as a problem.

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

@Jordan2 Me either. It has to be years.

grandma r · ‎10-26-2010

@Laura14. So did we. Literally this thin book in a plastic bag thrown on the front lawn. I thought it was trash when I went out to pick it up. Such a waste of money!!!!

Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

Why do they always deliver it by dropping it precisely halfway up the driveway about half an hour before a driving rainstorm? In my lifetime I swear I've received more drenched in the plastic bag phone directories than dry ones.

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