I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

The phone rings, I answer and a man on the other end of the line says, Hi, I’d like to make a reservation please.

I ask for the date and time.

He says, tomorrow at 6:00, for 4 people.  

I say great, can I get your phone number starting with the area code.

He says, 555-5555.

I realize that he has not given me the area code.

I stop and say, can I get the area code please?

And he gets angry and says, it’s 207, I told you I live here.

Well honey.

My little machine that I use requires me to put the area code in, whether you live here or not.

And.

I live here too, and my area code is not 207.  

In fact, as it turns out the friends you are dining with tomorrow, live here as well, and their area code is NOT 207.  

And it really doesn’t cost you anything to be nice.

PS.  After you hung up, I remember who you are.  You were the very nice party that on Saturday night, one of the busiest night of the fall/winter, stayed almost 3 hours at the bar when you were told when I seated you that I needed the chairs back by 7:15. I made it work for me, but the bartenders didn’t appreciate losing three 2-tops I pushed into the dining room in order to accommodate them.