We've just received our new telephone directory for 2021/22 which combines both the whitepages and yellowpages. It's less than half the previous edition. Has there been an exodus of people from the area? Or have they all switched over to mobile phones?
The difference is in the Yellow Pages which shrank from their previous 300 to a mere 159 pages. Those fingers that did the walking certainly stopped paying out to Sensis, the company which owns the Yellow Pages, those 'rivers of gold' that kept it awash in money when every business that wanted to stay in business had to be in Australia's Yellow Pages.
Times have changed. The fingers that did the walking now click on the mouse. I can just hear someone in Sensis screaming, Not happy, Jan!"
P.S. I've added a comma between 'happy' and 'Jan'. My life is a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to have friends. Sadly, the days of people using proper English are went.
