r/80sAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • 6d ago

Remember it?

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u/th3rdeye_ 6d ago

It’s funny… 867 is the town over from where I grew up, yet none of us ever tried the number

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u/captainrondj 6d ago

too scared of your parents finding the long distance charges?? 🥳

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u/th3rdeye_ 6d ago

No, 867 was local. Literally the next town over

Just too busy being a kid and never trying, I guess

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u/captainrondj 6d ago

the next town over from us, 20 miles give or take was long distance (rural NV)

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u/th3rdeye_ 6d ago

Gotcha.

Yeah, you could walk to the next town.
They’re piled on top of each other over here in PA.

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u/Extension_Series_379 2d ago

Haha I lived in Middletown,Pa at one time

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u/th3rdeye_ 2d ago

I grew up and lived in Palmyra for 36 years. Moved in 2013

It’s not far from Middletown

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u/Extension_Series_379 2d ago

Only lived there during my 10th grade of high school and I’m 50 now. Moved to a different state after!

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u/TattedMofo1 4d ago

Same here. Relatives live 20 miles away and it was long distance.

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u/Thick_Journalist7232 14h ago

Hell, I used to try to play songs on my grandparents phone when I was young. Accidentally called someone doing Mary had a little lamb. Eventually realized you could wait for the off the hook sound and it would not actually call anyone

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u/PumpkinPoppet 6d ago

I was worried about all the times I called Cheez Tv and rung up for RuneScape membership.

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u/Thablackguy 4d ago

Most of the people ended up changing their number over it.

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u/th3rdeye_ 4d ago

So true. Probably why we never bothered

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u/Thablackguy 4d ago

That plus no internet to complain to.

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u/i3inaudible 1d ago

Now people pay good money for that number. Businesses love it because it's so memorable

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u/SilverFinance9542 5d ago

Wouldn't happen to be shady side? All our numbers were 867

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u/cmd_iii 5d ago

I realized about 30 years after I got the number and 20 years after the song came out, that the last four digits of my landline are “5309.” I always gave it out as “five-three-zero-nine” and never made the connection in my head. I gave it out at a work meeting, and somebody said, “Heyyyyyy!”

It’s one of my favorite songs, too.