September 10, 2005, 6:50pm

I tried to press the buttons in numerous ways to put the letters on the screen. And of course, I failed.

I had a problem with the phone. I had no idea how to dial the number, well, not the number, the letters.

Got my check card from the bank and had to activate the card by phone. OK, it's a series of numbers and letters. What to do with it?

I looked into the phone manual and found nothing about dialing the letters. Went online and found something about the history of the phone numbers with letters and that the letters on the pad are arranged differently in Europe, blah blah blah...

I wanted to know how to dial the letters! So, I called Shirley for help.

The way to dial the letters is to dial the number corresponding to the letter. Say, helena, it's just to dial 435362. Why making the world so complicated!

You see, seems like everyone knows how. And no one ever would say "this is absolutely wierd!" but me.

Now, I finally know how and got to know the history too. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names