Area Codes

* How is it we have to confuse ourselves so much with additional area codes and overlays within those areas, when many cities in Europe and Japan have merely added one single digit (and often the same digit) to existing numbers to handle the problem of demand for more telephone numbers? It is a lot easier to remember to just add the same number to everyone’s old number than to try and figure out what new and unknown three-digit area code has been invented.

ROBERT SHARP

South Pasadena