TalkUpstate and the prep sports section are temporarily offline. I'm not sure when I developed an aversion to numbers. Perhaps the number of numbers harassing me gradually led to numbers overload, prompting me to resent a growing dependence on numbers. I'm a sports fan, but don't ask the score of yesterday's game. I flushed that number when the game was over.
Telephone numbers are the most maddening.
If the phone company had set out to insinuate its numbers into the collective memory of mankind as part of a gigantic numbers proliferation conspiracy, it couldn't have formulated a more sinister and successful plan. It was annoying when Hyacinth 5 was added to the four digits. Already life was getting too complicated. A few days ago, I heard we might start using 10-digit phone numbers. Let's hope that was an April Fool's joke.