Yellow Pages

Sorting out the recycling, I see a small A5 sized booklet 1/4 inch thick. It was the Yellow Pages. "When did this arrive?" I say to the missus. "yesterday. Threw it straight in the bin. Who uses that anymore?"

Good point. I remember when it came in two hefty volumes that landed with a foundation-shaking thump on the doorstep. No chance of getting it through the letterbox.

I had a quick riffle through and I instantly knew the answer to my wife's question as to who uses it. The main categories were:

Stairlift Manufacturers
Mobility specialists
Will & Probate Solicitors
Monumental Masons & Gravestone tenderers


and so forth plus a smattering of plumbers, roof fixers and gutter clearers.

Yellow Pages now cater to the last few in the kingdom who don't automatically click on google for stuff.


And I never really noticed.


What else has been going on without me noticing I wonder?