Waiting/phone numbers

We realize that at this point, with our Dossier turned in, checks written, and in-between garage sales that we are in wait mode.  So we thought we would continue to update the blog with thoughts, statistics, questions, some random and some more relevant.

To kick this off I wanted to pose a question and allow our loyal blog readers (all 3 of you) to comment.  

Here goes....

So I think I am fairly with the times, I have a Myspace account with a slide show, I send and receive text messages, I do worktapes to the songs I write on Garageband, for goodness sakes I BLOG!  A trend that is rearing it's ugly head that at first I thought was just an anomaly, I have now confirmed nearly a half dozen times.  What is this "new age" craziness that Ty is talking about you may ask.....the 3-4-3 verbalization of a ten digit phone number.  In other words, I am hearing people, mostly younger than me, tell phone number like this:"yeah just give me a call on my cell, the number is 555-5555-555......WHAT!  I don't know where or how these younguns were raised but I have always thought the proper way to tell a phone number was with the 3 digit area code, 3 digit prefix.....followed by a polite pause and then the 4 digits that represent the personal number, I actually have even taken pride in what those 4 numbers were before.

Oh well, I guess American Idol call in numbers have maybe caused this cultural shift in phone number delivery.  I will just have to learn to understand and decipher these numbers without the correct pause placement.  The next thing you know people will stop saying www. before telling a web-site to go check out.  Well, surely not....

Thanks,

Ty (Andy Rooney) Morgan