The telephone books cower outside by the door, bound not only by tight-fitting plastic but by a shared experience of neglect, confusion, and embarrassment. They didn't ask to be born, and they didn't ask to be left on a doorstep for passersby to mock and the building's residents to reject. It's not their fault that people don't want to flip through thousands of yellow and white pages when the same information can be accessed online with a quick click. No one's fingers will be walking through these pages. The plastic will probably never be pierced by even a single one.
fresh-baked at 09:53 PMI hate my phonebook. It is slightly too big for my drawer of unloved items in my kitchen. On the rare occassion that I need my mandoline or who-am-I-kidding my Weight Watchers reference guide my drawer gets stuck on this book-o-numbers. Would I throw it away though? Never. Not until the next one comes. You just never know.
Great post. Love it!
Offered by: So 'n So's Mom on February 2, 2009 3:35 PMJodi,
Are you so busy reading every line of your phone book out of guilt (or, god forbid, calling everyone) that you don't have time for a new post?
Let your fingers do the walking away from the phone book and on to the keyboard.
Offered by: Mrs. Z on January 30, 2009 10:25 AMIn Denver, we have a few different phone book companies. Something I really don't need is competition from the phone book companies.
Their abandoned periodicals litter the streets, slowly dissolving into a murky pool of yellowing apathy.
Nice to see you, Jodi!
Offered by: Dave on January 27, 2009 12:49 AMThey remind me of my grandmother's house... just as cushioned toilet seats and rotary phones do. Oh wait, I am old enough to remember a rotary phone in my own house! If only I had had the foresight to save it! Who knew anything would ever change??
Offered by: Leslie on January 25, 2009 11:56 AMJodi, your post inspired me to hide all of my drugs in a phonebook altered with a utility knife a la Shawshank Redemption. Just think of the possibilities! Turn an unloved phonebook into a fruit bowl today!
Offered by: I swear I'm not a hipster on January 21, 2009 2:12 PMJodi! Just think of all those lonely, abandoned, unloved phonebooks out there in the world just dying to be fingered through! It's so sad!!!
Offered by: Lee on January 21, 2009 4:43 AMSAME IN MY BLDG, TOO!
Offered by: Sara Benincasa on January 20, 2009 10:33 AMThis made me sad!
Offered by: Martina on January 20, 2009 8:21 AMYou got yours, too?
Offered by: Da Goddess on January 19, 2009 4:28 AM
