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F*&% You Friday! The Yellow Pages

I’ve been working crazy hours. Hours that I’d normally spend being angry at Facebook for making stupid like a “send” button. Instead I’m getting paid to do work I love. Life is rough that way.

Still, I have room for getting pissed off. When I got home from work tonight, this is what I found on my doorstep.

Does anyone still have a use for the yellow pages? Can they go way forever so we stop killing trees? Or is the internet going to vanish in the twinkling of an eye and we’ll all curse one another for not keeping huge directories of telephone numbers?

16 Responses to F*&% You Friday! The Yellow Pages

  1. John Morrow May 6, 2011 at 8:23 am #

    Try propping open a door with your fancy internet. The yellow pages rock! ;)

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 9:05 am #

      My bricked iPhone does the job just fine thank you!

  2. Dori May 6, 2011 at 8:43 am #

    There was a cockroach on my mat right outside my front door. In my lobby we had just received a delivery of yellow pages for the building. I dropped 3 of the big books on top of the roach and left them there. Later, a guy friend came over to help me get rid of it, and it was still alive after being buried under 3 of those books.

    So to answer your question, no. There is no use for the yellow pages.

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 9:06 am #

      If the Yellow Pages can’t squish disgusting vermin, they are completely useless.

  3. Michael LaRocca May 6, 2011 at 9:51 am #

    I’ve been in Asia for 12 years. WTF are the Yellow Pages? Oh, wait, we used to get those in China every year. In Chinese. Names with one stroke first, then two, then three, then my eyes go kablooey because I can’t read Chinese and don’t know how you’d “alphabetize” it anyway.

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 9:56 am #

      The Yellow Pages in Chinese sound terrifying.

  4. Jonay Pelluz May 6, 2011 at 9:58 am #

    They are brilliant to keep my table level!

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 1:54 pm #

      I can send you mine if you need more leveling materials.

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 2:07 pm #

      They’re also brilliant to throw at your enemies.

  5. Lisa May 6, 2011 at 3:14 pm #

    Save trees indeed, seriously annoying that they still distribute that crap! (yeah for vlogging)

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm #

      It was the best way to show off that crap. :)

  6. Rachel Wilkerson May 6, 2011 at 5:28 pm #

    This had me laughing out loud at my desk. On a semi-related note, I think QR Codes deserve a “f*ck you Friday” of their own.

    • Jay May 6, 2011 at 5:43 pm #

      Yeah, I’ll get to those soon. Can’t always make fun of Facebook.

  7. Geoff Merritt May 6, 2011 at 8:38 pm #

    I have a business…. and I am lucky enough to get 2 dropped off if I am not there to tell them otherwise.
    Straight to the recycling bin they go… is a waste

  8. Crystal May 7, 2011 at 8:12 pm #

    It really pisses me off that I signed up not get them and still I got them…at my current place and the one I’m moving to. And there was already a set at the new place. All told I have 3 sets. And the random ones haven’t started arriving yet.

    • Jay May 9, 2011 at 10:48 am #

      They’re like pokemon and share buttons. You gotta catch them all!