More Unwanted

Phone Books

To the Editor:

Last week, I came home to find not one, but two more volumes of telephone directories tossed by my mailbox. This brings the grand total to four that I have received since August.

Just like Steve Martin in The Jerk, I checked the first book to see if I was listed (“I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday!”).

Personally, I don’t remember looking for anything else in a phone book for the last five years.

Perhaps we can “opt out” of receiving these phone books, or maybe the phone company can drop off a disk that I can use on my computer instead. In addition to having to haul these books off to recycling (again), the advertisements on the front and back covers for lawyers looking to scrounge up business and kickboxing 40-year-old mothers of two with rock hard abs is getting to be depressing.

Respectfully,

Kathy Gleason-Buda

14 Baldwin Road, Newtown                                 September 16, 2008