Calling the bookstore tomorrow? Don’t forget your 918!
Phone Call Changes Saturday
The ten-digit dialing goes into effect at midnight Saturday morning, requiring that any local call be preceded by the three digit area code 918. Later, when new numbers are assigned, they will have their own area code, which will also need to be entered for local dialing. The 1 – used for long distance – should be left off for local calls.
There are some complaints, but then no one truly cares for change. The overlay system allows McHuston Booksellers to maintain ads, websites, cash register programming, and business cards as is – without the time and expense of a massive change.
I don’t remember it, but there was a time when a telephone operator sat in an office and plugged a patch-cord in to connect two telephones. When the company introduced manual “dialers” in the new sets, it did not prove to be the downfall of communications. We push buttons now instead of dialing, and got through that change, too.
We’ll all probably survive the new system.