This week Montreal switched to 10-digit dialing. I keep forgetting and am repeatedly subjected to the “Le numéro que vous avez composé est un numéro local…”
Which makes me wonder: how many things do we do every day without really thinking about it, simply because we’ve always done it that way? Perhaps there is no progress without the kind of rupture that forces us to examine our routines and unconscious gestures.
I guess that’s the beauty of travel: it shakes up your schedule and makes you confront your environment in conscious ways that would never happen at home where so much is familiar.
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