Just Curious (and bored)

[Cachoo]

Do you remember your phone number from your childhood? Mine was MU-46752 (in the old prefix days.) I don't know why that stuck with me. Anyone else?

 

[gkelly]

Do you remember your phone number from your childhood? Mine was MU-46752 (in the old prefix days.) I don't know why that stuck with me. Anyone else?

567-8238

 

[once_upon]

My dad had my childhood phone number until he died 4 years ago. From 1957 until 2020.

My grandmother had a party line on the farm. Their "ring" denoting it was their call was 3 tones/cranks. Their neighbors Bill and Louise was 2 "rings". Of course, everyone picked.up everyone's calls and put their hand over the bell. If you wanted a private conversation, you drove to their house.

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[Judy]

Yes! 61374955**

 

[Cachoo]

My dad had my childhood phone number until he died 4 years ago. From 1957 until 2020.

My grandmother had a party line on the farm. Their "ring" denoting it was their call was 3 tones/cranks. Their neighbors Bill and Louise was 2 "rings". Of course, everyone picked.up everyone's calls and put their hand over the bell. If you wanted a private conversation, you drove to their house.

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Oh wow...I received my own landline for my 16th birthday and that line moved with me for years until just before the C-pandemic. It was 684-6333. Now 684-6333 (with an 800) is the FEMA line for burial assistance if the death is due to the damned pan.

 

[SamChez]

My grandmother had a party line on the farm. Their "ring" denoting it was their call was 3 tones/cranks. Their neighbors Bill and Louise was 2 "rings". Of course, everyone picked.up everyone's calls and put their hand over the bell. If you wanted a private conversation, you drove to their house.

Our "ring" was 3 longs and 3 shorts. Our phone number was 10F33. Very rural western Kansas.

 

[orbitz]

867-5309.

 

[PRlady]

CApital 4-5766

Yet more brain cells not available when I need them.

 

[another sk8rmom]

DEvonshire 2-3254

 

[just tuned in]

Anyone here remember Greenwood 7-5312?

 

[Simone411]

Mine used to be 872-4692. I then got a new phone number which was 871-1878. We had two prefixes by then. That was around 2009 when I got the new land line number. It's also when I had all kinds of hellish problems because there was an auto shop in town called Triple J Auto. Their phone number was 872-1878.

People would call me all the time wanting to know when their car would be ready. I had to tell them they dialed the wrong number. I even gave the correct number to Triple J Auto. Then, there was a very stubborn man that kept calling me wanting to know when his car would be ready to pick up.

It didn't do any good when I gave him the correct number to call. The man called me three more times demanding to know when his car would be ready. I finally gave up and told him that his car was ready, and he could pick it up anytime.

It wasn't long after that, I cancelled my land line and just had a cell phone.

 

[Desperado]

I remember our number from when I was 14 because my parents kept it, but I remember only the first 3 digits of the one we had before.

(We had to change it because my dad’s “friend” was harassing my mom so I might’ve blocked it due to that.)

 

[taf2002]

BR579

 

[Kasey]

4228910 (at least that is the one I remember best, since we moved around a lot when I was a kid)

 

[skategal]

867-5309.

Is that you, Jenny?

And yes, I remember my childhood phone number but none of the other ones besides the current ones I have.

 

[annie720]

Yep. LY66014. It was a party line in SE VA. Why don’t I remember any of our other numbers when I was older and might have actually given the number out to someone.

 

[my little pony]

yes, it repeated a lot of numbers and was easy to remember, I still use it for passwords

 

[airgelaal]

yes, it repeated a lot of numbers and was easy to remember, I still use it for passwords

Me too. Ideal password

 

[once_upon]

Not a phone number, but think it might fit here.

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[Wyliefan]

Not my phone number, but I remember my old Flordia street address from childhood, all but the zip.

 

[screech]

No my own first phone number (the one for the first few years of my life) - I remember the one from when we moved when I was 5, because my parents still have it.
But I do still remember the Tanner's phone number from Full House: 555-2424. For some reason, 30+ years later, that phone number is ingrained in my brain (and no, I never tried to call it).

 

[Winnipeg]

No way can I remember my past phone numbers. We moved a lot.

I do have a friend in SoCal who has had the same number all of her life and I can remember that one.

 

[moebius]

853-5937

 

[barbk]

YES! From the era where the first two digits corresponded to the letters of our town.

Snark - when the new 720 area code was introduced in Colorado, I ended up with a cell phone number that started 720-300-xxxx. The prefix 300 violated the old rules of the North American Numbering Plan governing how phone numbers were coded. The rules changed, but software in auto-dialers was slow to adjust. That cell phone was blessedly free of junk calls for about two years.

Anti-snark - website were often slow to adjust to the new rules, and I had orders and entries rejected because of an invalid phone number!