Travels with the numbers people
Thursday, May 12th, 2005 Typical family conversation from the road trip up to Canada for my aunt R’s 80th birthday:
“What’s our room number?”
“315.”
“That’s not as good as 314.”
“Or 357.”
“But it does have the whole odd numbers thing going for it, like your old work extension was 357 and my mobile phone extension is the first four odd integers out […]