Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!arizona!budd From: budd@arizona.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: european phone numbers Message-ID: <3515@arizona.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 11:10:02 EDT Article-I.D.: arizona.3515 Posted: Fri Jul 29 11:10:02 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 06:30:37 EDT Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 17 reminds me of a summer job i had while i was back in graduate school. the summer job was in Munich, germany, but through a software house in San Francisco. The people in SF had given me a phone number for my connection in Munich, but unfortunately it was the number you use to phone from the USA (08xxxxx). Since the SF company just gave me the dollar equivalent of round trip airfare to/from munich, naturally my wife and i flew to london and took the train, thereby saving a considerable amount of money. All the while we took traveling from london to munich (about 4 days) at the end of each day i would try to phone the number i was given and make connections. Each time i would get a german operator, and since i don't speak german, i would ask if she spoke english, and she would hang up on me. It was not until we had reached munich, spent several hours in the train station by the phone, that we finally looked in the phone book, saw zillions of numbers starting with 8, and did the induction that if you dropped off the leading zero you would get through. it did.