The Yellow Pages are Useful

I normally don't use them this way, but in the states we had a gas grill.

For those of you who do not know, I place yellow pages advertising for a large American company. In fact they do have yellow pages directories over here in England as well. They are still printed on a yearly basis all over the world.

We have had a couple of BBQs here with our housemates and friends from all over the world. Francois from South Africa let us know that he uses yellow pages all the time, and he used it the same way he always does, ripped out pages rolled up and placed under the charcoal to light up the BBQ. The Australians agreed that the yellow pages are great for this, but they use it for other things too… evening out table legs and the like.

There was myself and 7 other people in their mid 20’s  at this BBQ, not a single one uses the yellow pages to find numbers for pizza, plumbers, or anything else for that matter. Now, I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but it is still just nice to know that what I do for a living really makes a difference.