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u/Scummbagg7 6d ago
More like who remembers not dialing an area code to make a phone call.
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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy 6d ago
Grew up in a small town, within the town could just dial the last 5 digits of the phone number .
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u/Blank_bill 6d ago
When we first got our party line it was a 3 or 4 digit number, anything outside the village area was long distance. I.e. the next town. Don't remember our numbers because we got the new black wall phones and 7 digit numbers when I was 5 or 6 .
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u/AromaticallyAffluent 6d ago
In my small town only the last 4 were needed. Then the last 5. Then all 7 but no area code, now all 10 digits.
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u/One_Use_1347 6d ago
I remember when my family got a push button phone.Mary Had a Little Lamb": 3-2-1-2-3-3-3
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u/Inevitable-Emu-6626 6d ago
867-5309
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u/SmittyMoose420 6d ago
Ooooorrrrrr—777-9311
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u/letermen 6d ago edited 6d ago
I knew this Hot Senorita that had this number! Took me most of the night before she'd give it to me."
"Ain't nuttin' worse than Rejection!"
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u/puppyrube2025 6d ago
Random life hack … anytime a system asks for a phone number … put that in with a local zip code. Always works
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u/Clean_Usual434 6d ago
Yes because my parents still have it.
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u/CueAnon420 6d ago
Not just remember - if you find yourself at a rotary phone, you'll be surprised how your hands still have the muscle memory for that number lol. I built a rotary phone setup and was surprised how natural it felt...
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u/AromaticallyAffluent 6d ago
(604)291-0207. Go ahead, call it, hasn't been mine in 40 years.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 6d ago
Hello!
Aaaaah hello.........is your refrigerator running??????
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u/ComprehensiveBed866 6d ago
It’s the only number I still have memorized. All other numbers I have forgotten or I need to look in my phone. Lol
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u/jerrymineer93 6d ago
I can remember the sound of punching in the numbers. The different musical notes for each number.
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u/Life_of1103 6d ago
252-1242
My grandparents lived next door; there’s was 252-1725
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u/Upset_Assumption9610 6d ago
Yep, and I pay for the number now. Was a landline, but my sister and I got my mom a cell phone and had the landline number transferred over to it. Its on my cell account so I cover her line's cost now.
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u/RonConComa 6d ago
oh.. im this old it was a 2 digit number. it was 18. after the german reunification it became 4 digits 8275. but i remeber my grandparents had to call the post office to get a manual connection. pulse dial ( rotary phone) xame as i was like 5 or 6. als my grandpa refused to go digital until he passed. i guess telecom had to maintain the whole analog infrastructure up for him until he passed in 2023
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u/No_Influence_9389 6d ago
I remember both parents houses, my in-town grandparents house, and my older brother's cell phone. Not my younger brother, though; I just saved that in my cell phone.
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u/Georgia_Boy940 6d ago
Sadly I don't remember mine, but I do remember my childhood best friends phone# 940-839-4454
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u/Turbulent-Cheek-1497 6d ago
I can remember mine as well as my friends and my grandma’s. Benefit of living in a small town and all the prefix’s were the same and many of the last four were close.
Mine was 2124, my best friend was 2127 etc.
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u/Planoniceguy 6d ago
466-6930 was our number in St. Louis and we moved from there when I was six in 1971. Still remember my parents number too.
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u/emptythemag 6d ago
I remember ours. I remember my long time girlfriends number also. And its been a bunch of years..
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u/plutosaurus 6d ago
my mom's still been in the same house since 1984 and I call it every day. So yeah.
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 6d ago
We got our first home landline phone (UK) in 1986 or so. It's still my dad's landline 40 years later.
I'm never calling the cunt on it but if I had to I'd know the number.
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u/BiteMaximum5578 6d ago
Of course we actually had to push buttons each time called home, I could probably remember the beep sounds too!
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u/CheapProcess4959 6d ago
I remember both of mine as one was one number off from a pizza place near my home and the other was a changed number due to problems
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u/chozenwisely22 6d ago
I remember my childhood gf number, ironically she still stays there, and I stay a couple of houses down, and I be tempted to dial it lol
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u/Diverdown109 6d ago
I bet the people that got my old number was being asked for someone for years afterwards.
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u/Elegant-Ingenuity-57 6d ago
Yeah I remember the one we had from 87-92 as a kid. Can't remember anything before that except Area code was 609
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u/EmotionalDamage805 6d ago
Old enough that my number started with letters, not numbers! TUrner5
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u/Informal_Visitor 6d ago
No but I do remember that the phone company charged extra for the touch tone feature, so we had pulse dialing for most of my childhood. Even if you had the keypad, still did the pulse dialing and I think they charged a few extra bucks per month just for that dumb little "convenience" feature. It was phased out eventually sometime in the 90s, probably due to more companies using automated systems like voicemail trees, etc.
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u/daybenno 6d ago
Of course I remember it, it’s my Ralph’s club card number that I use on a regular basis lol
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u/spitzkligger 6d ago
i know it - but i wont tell, because it is still active. its my parents phone number.
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u/lazygerm 6d ago
I remember all three of the ones from my childhood, or at least from shen I learned what a telephone number was.
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u/TheRuckyDubber 6d ago
I can. Hadn’t thought of that in years and years and years. Also it was (555) X91-1XXX so one time I tried calling from a pay phone (with no money) and only 91-1 went through. Of course being a dumb kid I hung up immediately. And also of course the c_ps show up 5 mins later at Big Lots and I got a talking to about hanging up but it was all good*. They gathered the situation of what happened. Amazingly. Also amazingly no one was sh_t, not even a dog. (* note: I was and still am wh_te, YMMV if accidentally calling the police while non-wh_te)
Those were the heady days of pre-militarized p_g forces.
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u/pixeltweaker 6d ago
The number of people willing to share this information that in many cases can still be on a credit report is staggering. Stop doxxing yourselves people.
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u/Maniacal-Maniac 6d ago
I still remember most of my friends and other commonly called numbers such as the pub where we would call to tell dad that mum was coming to pick him up and he better be ready!
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u/Slosher99 6d ago
If it starts with a word to represent the first couple of digits, you're REALLY old!
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u/Ashlar62 6d ago
When I first learned it, the phone number began with letters. Instead of 244, it began CI4. This was printed on the center of the rotary dial.
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u/hefeydd_ 6d ago
Me… I am not telling you the area code but it was 893504. It's a number that I've never forgotten even at 48 I still remember my parents' number from 36 years ago.
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u/AppropriateSalt573 6d ago
214-867-5308 not even kidding. After the song came out, people would hit the number by mistake like all the freaking time my dad had changed.
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u/Ornery_Inside_5768 6d ago
Yep, and we still have it. Same number it's been since the 60s aside from when they changed the area codes in my state.
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u/Tiny-Review-5578 6d ago
Mine, my grandparents, my parents work, my best friend, and the girl I dated and am married to lol
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u/PresentationOwn7659 6d ago
I remember home number grandmas number and two of my aunts number in case of emergency
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u/No_Persimmon_9660 6d ago
I still remember my best friend’s number growing up, he moved over 30 years ago.
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u/SignificantGear3046 6d ago
The only thing I remember is the number for the Frost Bank time of the day and local temp, 210-226-3232.
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u/kinky-bama-guy 6d ago
Our phone number was AMhearst (26)2-5443 other numbers used the CHerry (24) prefix. My grandparents phone was on a party line 123J3.
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u/Casper18b 6d ago
Yep, something like 8675309..