Sleepless obsessions

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Gene

As I lay awake tonight waiting for the appointed hour to get up and head for the airport, telephones swam through my gauzy brain. Two questions to ponder while I am flying cross country:
First, remember way back when your telephone used to be provided by the phone company? (Those of you born after, say, 1976 won’t remember this.) Back then, the phone had a little slip of paper on which your telephone number was printed. This slip of paper resided under a little retangular window.
Do phones still have this little indentification? I don’t think any of my phones has had one of those little number windows in at least 10 years.
Second, have you noticed that commercials for 10-10 services and collect call services have all but disappeared? I can only assume that the proliferation of cellular phones have made those services mostly obsolete. There’s a whole industry gone in a flash. The march of progress.
Well, I’m off to San Francisco International Airport. Catch you on the other side of the country!