And I’m just giving it away. If someone does this and makes a billion dollars, that’s fine, but it might be nice to send me a card or something.

I thought of this as my wife and I were discussing this morning how frustrating it is that we have so many phone numbers in our life. She gets work calls at work, on her cell, and at home, where we have two lines. I have the same situation. Some work people use my cell, some use my home, some use my office, some use my home office. (I know, these are not the problems of Ed and Edwina Lunchpail, but bear with

me.)

So here’s that billion dollar idea: it’s called FIND ME. Find Me is a telecom service that provides you with one phone number that you give to everyone. Then you tell Find Me where you want to be contacted at any given moment in the day. Getting into the car? Call Find Me’s toll-free number, enter a PIN (not a PIN number, because that would be a Personal Identification Number number, and boy does that irk me, just like ATM machine), and tell Find Me to route all calls to your cell. Or program Find Me with a schedule, so that all calls at 8 AM routinely start going to the cell, at 9 AM to the office and so forth.

Tell Find Me which numbers should always go to the office, or which should go to voicemail (mother-in-law. Oops. Was that out loud?).

Your friends and family can have an emergency code that allows them to try all of your phones until you are found. And Find Me will automatically recognize a fax machine and send it to your fax.

And you only ever have to give out one phone number for the rest of your life.

You’re welcome.