(I get a cab through an app to drive me to the airport so I won’t have to leave my car there. The following exchange happens right after she drops me off.)
Driver: “Okay, we’re here. Have a good day!”
Me: “Thank you. Here’s your money.”
Driver: totally serious “And when will you need picking up?”
Me: “In about three weeks?”
Driver: “Oh.” drives off
(What was she going to do?! Sit there at the airport until I came back?)
NYC has a jillion +4 codes. They start at 0001 and run to some really big number. Our little town in NE Georgia has a population of 2000 and our +4 is 4498.. Go figure.
Slightly off topic: Telephone area codes have for decades now been divorced from the actual area in which you live. Now they only represent the area in which the number was issued, and even that may not be true much longer. There was a time when you could use DDD (direct distance dialing) to reach a phone outside your area. You’d have to dial “1” first so the phone system “knew” that the next 3 digits would be the area code, followed by the 7-digit actual phone number. But if you were calling somebody nearby (in the same area), you only needed the basic 7. (Of course, now you don’t need to hit any numbers at all, you just find the name of the person in your list of contacts and tap it. And I wonder if young people ever remark on the curious etymology of the word “dial”.)
Ratkin 4 days ago
Lost me.
Yakety Sax 4 days ago
First story
That Will Be Some Epic Meter Fare
(I get a cab through an app to drive me to the airport so I won’t have to leave my car there. The following exchange happens right after she drops me off.)
Driver: “Okay, we’re here. Have a good day!”
Me: “Thank you. Here’s your money.”
Driver: totally serious “And when will you need picking up?”
Me: “In about three weeks?”
Driver: “Oh.” drives off
(What was she going to do?! Sit there at the airport until I came back?)
jasonsnakelover 4 days ago
But do you know?
ꜝ 4 days ago
zip+4?
The Orange Mailman 4 days ago
ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan
derdave969 4 days ago
NYC has a jillion +4 codes. They start at 0001 and run to some really big number. Our little town in NE Georgia has a population of 2000 and our +4 is 4498.. Go figure.
Meg: Cute as a Raccoon 4 days ago
If they change your gate to a zip code, you’re in trouble.
InTraining 4 days ago
easy… just take seats on bar stools… order… and your plane will appear out of thin air…!
Retrac Premium Member 4 days ago
Nah, the new number is the zip code for where your gate is now located.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 4 days ago
Slightly off topic: Telephone area codes have for decades now been divorced from the actual area in which you live. Now they only represent the area in which the number was issued, and even that may not be true much longer. There was a time when you could use DDD (direct distance dialing) to reach a phone outside your area. You’d have to dial “1” first so the phone system “knew” that the next 3 digits would be the area code, followed by the 7-digit actual phone number. But if you were calling somebody nearby (in the same area), you only needed the basic 7. (Of course, now you don’t need to hit any numbers at all, you just find the name of the person in your list of contacts and tap it. And I wonder if young people ever remark on the curious etymology of the word “dial”.)