Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Phone numbers and form fields
Date: 23:09 on 03 Mar 2005

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:56:53PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
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> Don't even get me started about places that do not understand non-US
> phone numbers.  Or addresses - a particularly vile subspecies of this
> being forms that require entering a US state.  That's why I am often
> a 112 year old granny from Alaska with the phone number of 555-1234.

Now, don't get the impression it's just software suffering from this.
A few years ago, I was living in the US. I wanted to rent a U-HAUL truck.
Since I was living in PA, and since I had figured out that, as a PA
resident, I did *not* need a US driving license, I kept using my Dutch
one, although I had a US picture ID.

So, I was there to do the paperwork for the truck. The guy asked for my
driving license. Knowing that USians often ask for a driving license when
they mean ID, I asked whether he wanted to see my driving license (which,
considering I was about to rent a truck also makes sense), or my ID. He
wanted the latter, but said he wanted to see a driving license.

So, I handed over mine (which is a large pink wad, totally different from
a US one), telling him it was a license from the Netherlands. His brain
almost overheated to make sense of the license, finally resulting in the
question:

    What is the state code for The Netherlands?

Abigail

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Jarkko Hietaniemi 21:56 on 03 Mar 2005
- velut luna. immanis. 22:15 on 03 Mar 2005
  - Juerd 23:27 on 03 Mar 2005
- Rhesa Rozendaal 22:33 on 03 Mar 2005
  - Philip Newton 05:41 on 04 Mar 2005
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- Abigail 23:09 on 03 Mar 2005
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- Philip Newton 05:39 on 04 Mar 2005
  - Abigail 08:29 on 04 Mar 2005
  - Chris Devers 15:09 on 04 Mar 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 14:36 on 05 Mar 2005
  - Aaron Crane 11:01 on 07 Mar 2005
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Tony Bowden 22:04 on 03 Mar 2005
Philip Newton 05:35 on 04 Mar 2005
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David Cantrell 14:27 on 04 Mar 2005
Darrell Fuhriman 16:29 on 04 Mar 2005
velut luna. immanis. 17:43 on 04 Mar 2005
- Hakim 17:49 on 04 Mar 2005
- Nicholas Clark 18:08 on 04 Mar 2005
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