Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!382!5!Charlotte.Ferris From: Charlotte.Ferris@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Charlotte Ferris) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: To phone or not to phone Message-ID: <15757@bunker.UUCP> Date: 19 Nov 90 04:04:55 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Charlotte.Ferris@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/5 - Health-Link, Austin TX Lines: 15 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 11849 In our area, Bill, (Texas, that is), if you provide the phone company with documentation of a disability which complicates the usage of the phone book, they will not charge you for your directory assistance calls...... ...now, that's the way it was some-odd years ago; I don't know if they have changed that policy and just grandfathered all the already "approved" disabled users into the system....hmmm, worth looking into. Charlotte -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!382!5!Charlotte.Ferris Internet: Charlotte.Ferris@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org