Why are phone companies the devil?
If you live in a major city, you’re familiar with the concept of a “metro” number. This means that if the phone customer pays more for their phone service, people calling them from the metro area but with a different area code do not have to pay long distance. Not only this, but they don’t have to dial the +1 either. Well, that’s all well and good…but wait, there’s more. If I call someone that has the special “metro” line and dial a +1 (because how am I to know they have a metro line), guess what? The operator tells me that I don’t have to dial +1, I can call without the +1 before the area code. Hang up and try it again good buddy. So now I have to dial a second time.
 
OK, so now I dial phone number two thinking hey, maybe they have a metro line. So this time I leave off the +1. “Oh, sorry guy” says the operator “you have to dial +1 for this cheapskate who didn’t buy our super awesome metro line”. So inevitably, I always put a 1 where there shouldn’t be and leave it off where I should have used it. Is it really that important that I leave the 1 off a metro phone call? I mean, comon! Phone company, if I don’t “have” to dial +1, fine, I’ll try and remember that. Don’t make me hang up and redial it without the 1!
Phone company, I suggest you improve your dialing system so that people like me who are making calls all day don’t go postal one day about your don’t dial 1 or do dial 1 rules.