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bktheirregular) wrote2003-07-11 01:11 pm
bktheirregular) wrote2003-07-11 01:11 pm
Grr.
Had to call someone in Greece to get an insurance glitch squared away. Did you know that the technique for dialing a number in Greece has changed twice in the past two years?
People here complain about the phones sometimes, but it's nothing compared to how it is over there. Two keys:
1) People in Greece use mobile phones - cell phones - not just for cachet, but because they're more reliable than the landlines. That's how bad the landlines are.
2) It was even a plot point in a James Bond novel, once: in Saratoga Springs, New York, an incident goes down, preceded by a failure of the phones. Much was made of the fact that Bond, being a European, thought nothing of the phones going down, but should have been put on alert by the fact that it's such a rarity in America...
Close entry.
People here complain about the phones sometimes, but it's nothing compared to how it is over there. Two keys:
1) People in Greece use mobile phones - cell phones - not just for cachet, but because they're more reliable than the landlines. That's how bad the landlines are.
2) It was even a plot point in a James Bond novel, once: in Saratoga Springs, New York, an incident goes down, preceded by a failure of the phones. Much was made of the fact that Bond, being a European, thought nothing of the phones going down, but should have been put on alert by the fact that it's such a rarity in America...
Close entry.