I don’t know about you but I used to look forward to the phone book being delivered. I would grab it and look through it to see what new information was being offered this year. I was a weird kid, and sure I am a bit weird now as well, that is ok as I am ok with who I am. Back to the phone book thing, I would read about the city, the county and the state. The information was right at my fingertips. Plus I always checked to see if our listing was right, I would then check on my Grandparents numbers and my friends, I even remember looking for “famous” peoples phone numbers they were never in there. The world at least my community was right at my fingertips. I grew up in the Twin Cities so the phone book was lots bigger than the La Crosse phone book. I remember going to look up the family’s information and finding another person with the same name as my dad who lived on the same block name and almost the same address for example they were on 1235 east Main Street when we were on 1234 west Main Street. I am sure I wouldn’t find that now…because no one uses the phone book anymore, infact I don’t remember the last time I grabbed one. Do you? The reason I bring this up is there is about 72 phone books by the front desk at work, and only 2 or 3 have even been picked up. It is even too small to use as a booster seat. I like now that any info you need for the world is at your fingertips…on the internet.
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