God I hate it when people–especially those trying to show how tech-savvy and “with it” they are–use periods instead of dashes in their phone numbers. E.g., their business card will say “214.555.1234” instead of “214-555-1234”.
Also very annoying is when a website or someone gives only a stupid letter-version of their phone number, like 1-800-GE-CARES. I have to figure the stupid numbers out each time I want to call.
Finally, I hate European phone numbers. Half the time they forget to tell you their stupid country code; often they insert a ridiculous (0) after the country code that you have to omit if you are calling from outside. Almost as bad are the strange, always non-standard European snail mail addresses. Jesus.
