{"id":618,"date":"2002-10-12T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=618"},"modified":"2021-05-18T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:02:41","slug":"dial-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/10\/12\/dial-the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial the &#8220;1&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/mebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I just heard a standup comic<b>*<\/b> joking about how old people always insist on giving out long distance numbers by preceding it with a one.  The joke is that <i>everybody<\/i> knows you dial a 1 first, and that old people are too set in their ways to adapt and drop the obvious reference.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Well, let me tell you, way too many people do <i>not<\/i> know they need to dial the 1. Too many people when they see &#8220;800-800-8000&#8221; on a billboard or on TV will dial exactly those ten numbers &#8212; which does nothing more than piss off the unfortunate sod who has 800-8008 for a phone number.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I speak from experience.  My neighboring area code is 248 and in a cruel twist of fate my phone number at work has a 248 prefix.  Thus, hilarity ensues.  Much too frequently (especially this morning as it turns out), we&#8217;ll get calls for AAA, the public library, a law office, the power company (DTE)\u2026all because businesses are following that standup comic&#8217;s advice and assuming it&#8217;s safe to drop the 1 from their ads. And because too many people are too stupid to know they need to dial that 1 first.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; In short, do not be swayed by that standup comic.  Don&#8217;t make fun of old people for reminding us to dial 1. Cherish them, teach them to dial the 1, quit calling me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; [ <b>*<\/b>The standup comic? It was that hump, Jay Leno. ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I just heard a standup comic* joking about how old people always insist on giving out long distance numbers by preceding it with a one. The joke is that everybody knows you dial a 1 first, and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/10\/12\/dial-the-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}