By The Numbers

Hot off the presses! The latest fall fashion your business card will be wearing this year comes at the end of this sentence.

Apparantly, it is now proper etiquette (read: trendy) to use periods instead of hyphons when displaying your phone number.


Example:

You currently list your phone number thusly:


555-555-5555

But now, if your hip, you write it thisly:

555.555.5555


Why am I speaking so much about a stupid dot, you ask? It's not just the dot. It's what the dot represents. While it does look more chic than it's horozontal floating line counterpart, the period is representing just one item on a long list that we've upgraded as a country and as a people. ENOUGH ALREADY. When did we forget to leave well enough alone? More importantly, who are we paying to come up with all this garbage and is there a job opening in that department? I bet it pays six figures. Minimum.

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.........on second thought, is does the number look more professional, therefore making the person it belongs to look more professional, or like they are from Bulgaria*.

I'm supposed to design some new business cards for a neighbor this week. This means I'll be spending a ridiculous amount of time hitting the undo and redo buttons, comparing the old vs. the new. Yeesh.


*an idea broached in the last sentence of the attached article.