I'm glad I am not alone
This is my #1 pet peeve too.

I have to physically restrain myself from screaming out, every time I hear one of my colleagues give our office phone number as "0208 ......"

AAAAARRRRGGGH!

For fuck's sake, don't these people understand how area codes and local numbers work?

I wrote this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0207
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:13, Reply)