Actually they arrived maybe a week ago on my block. (Shocker: They are still sitting in front of my building, unopened.) But I noticed a few hundred thousand of them were waiting on stoops this morning along East Seventh Street...
Seriously — will anyone actually use one? (And not to, say, prop up a table, build a bookshelf or burn.)
It's OK if you do use one — just curious.
Early reaction...
@evgrieve Wasteful! When I need a phone number I just log on to AOL with my 2400 baud modem.
— Pinhead (@EVPinhead) December 11, 2013
15 comments:
wow, saw phone books AND a newspaper in 1 shot! Rare sighting, like seeing an 8-track tape and a floppy disc.
You could use one for packing gifts in boxes. Tear out the sheets, crumple them into balls, stuff into gaps in boxes to protect gifts from jostling. Pretty sad that that's the best use I could come up with for them.
Can someone please check to see if my beeper number is listed? ty
I took one to swop with my old 2010 book. I don't have internet at home, its like having an open sewer and spy network all in one that I get to pay for. But thanks to all my neighbors for polluting my apartment with your deadly wifi mcrowave radiation. thanks.
I would suggest to area landlords to get these off the sidewalks before Saturday morning unless you want torn up phone books all over the street ... or belligerent litterbug Santas being whupped upside the head with 400 pages of low-grade paper.
I'm on 7th and thought at first that the super took out the ones I put in the recycling the other day. But, no, it's another drop. What a waste!
@ BowBoy- We prefer the term "pagers" Thank you.
A shameful waste of paper and mass of trash. These should only be delivered upon request. I never see anyone actually take these. The stack appears, stays in the mail area for a few days or weeks, and then gets trashed. Not one copy taken.
- East Villager
Oh, goody, I was just in need of a new step-stool.
Now that doing Google searches for general services and merchandise, even with the "manhattan" or other qualifiers, brings up so much useless garbage thanks to SEO savvy by businesses, I think the Yellow Pages are a salvation, not a joke.
You'd be surprised on how the Yellow Pages is useful. It is the best and trusted place to look for local businesses that can provide one with the services and products one needs, esp. changes in life events, such as getting married-- purchasing new home, having a baby--, changing jobs, relocating to a new neighborhood/area ... it's during transitional times that make Yellow Pages valuable when is looking for the necessary to make and specific purchases from local businesses. Plus, it doesn't need batteries. But with the proliferation of chains and transient residents in the EV and their dependency on apps and being wired all the time, one can see why someone will make fun of having these around.
My husband always reaches for the phone book,a so googling doesn't occur to him. It lives under the sofa. He can always find the number faster than I can google it, unless it's for takeout which is the only type of store that is easy to access quickly.
The pile of them on the street made me feel melancholy.
Also have you seen how small they are now? Sad.
7:11 - I like to think that too but the businesses pay to have their ads in the book.
All the businesses are listed alphabetically, yes, but the 'featured' ones are paying for you to notice them.
I like to skip those ads and dial up the businesses without the ads. I am not exactly sure why I do that. Pity for the less savvy/less glitzy/less rich?
...waiting for you to add the falling snow effect. Since both unloved phone books and snow will be tripping up drunken Santas soon.
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