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You’re going to accuse me of being way too slow on the uptake.<\/p>\n

I don’t care. I am going to make this declaration anyway. You are welcome to disparage me if you so desire. I’m tough. I can take it.<\/p>\n

I have finally come to grips with the fact that I no longer need a telephone directory to find a phone number I need to call.<\/p>\n

Yep. Just like the rest of you I am packing my “directory” on my hip. It’s clipped to my belt in the same device I use to scroll the wire services, check my daily page-view stats on High Plains Blogger and, oh, make a phone call when I need to talk to someone.<\/p>\n

That ol’ smart phone serves the same purpose the phone book used to serve. I just Google the subject, the nature of the business and I can find it quickly. I hit the “call” button on my screen and, well, there you go.<\/p>\n

OK, you can stop laughing at me.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t all that long ago that I declared victory in my campaign to be the last man on Earth to own a cellular telephone. It was my mission. I was dedicated to seeing it through.<\/p>\n

Finally, I just thought I’d declare victory. I made it! Then I got a flip-phone that worked for good while. I graduated to something a bit more, um, sophisticated. Then I upgraded to the phone I have now.<\/p>\n

It’s a slick device.<\/p>\n

One of the many discoveries I made about it was the using it to locate a phone number is far less cumbersome, frustrating and annoying than using a printed phone book.<\/p>\n

You know why, but I’ll explain it briefly anyhow.<\/p>\n

In the not-too-distant old days, I would find that the person whose number I was seeking in the phone book wasn’t listed; he or she had cut off the land line and the cell number wasn’t in the book. If I needed to look in the Yellow Pages for a business phone number, I often would get frustrated slogging through the various topics trying to find the business.<\/p>\n

My wife and I severed our land line when we moved into our RV in October 2017 while we prepared to sell our Amarillo house. That event proved to be far less traumatic than I had anticipated.<\/p>\n

I wrote about this notion three years ago:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/08\/get-rid-of-the-land-line-not-just-yet\/<\/p>\n

As my comfort level with my smart phone has grown, I have discovered — finally!<\/em> — that phone books no longer serve a useful purpose.<\/p>\n

Are you proud of me?<\/p>\n\n

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