Yellow pages gives me the blues
I hate it when the Yellow pages gets dropped off at my house.. it usually arrives as a bundle of 2 books (the phonebook / white pages) and the Yellow pages, and they sit around the house unused until the next edition arrives.
They are massive, ugly, and for me – completely useless.
I would never page through the Yellow Pages looking for a plumber/electrician/painter/doctor/whatever, and any directory-type searches I need are done through Google and have been for years.
I don’t have it in me to simply chuck the books in the trash, and even sending them straight into the recycling seems like a complete waste.
I was peeved when I arrived home a couple of days ago to find that a new set of books had been dropped off, and they have been sitting on my dining table irritating me ever since.
I heard voices outside the house this morning and was pleased to see a couple of guys wearing high-visibility vests with a van full of telephone book, and going door-to-door to hand them out.
I rushed outside, and the conversation went something like this:
“Oh good, you’re back – I don’t need a phone book and yellow pages, please take mine back”
“Sorry sir, I can’t do that, I only distribute them, I can’t take them back”
“Why not? Give them to someone else. I haven’t used them.”
“No sir, I get paid per book I drop off, so I can’t take them back, I must hand them out”.
“So give mine away again, get paid twice”.
“No, I get paid for distributing these ones. Rather take another set from me and I’ll get paid”
“I don’t want another set. I don’t want this set either. If you won’t take mine away, I’m just going to throw them away.”
“Fine throw it away, but take another one and throw it away too so I can be paid”
“WTF???”
At this point I closed the door and put my phone books back on the table and vowed to ignore them for another year.
UPDATE: I’m clearly not the only one who hates this unsolicited dumping –
Check out http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/ and http://www.paperlesspetition.org/
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