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mwooldri

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28. Childhood phone number was easy to remember

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 11:07 PM

Dec 3

201 was mine at one point.

UK had village exchanges with 3 digit phone numbers. Area code was 6 digits long. Alas those 3 digit numbers are no more, the exchanges were modernized and linked in with other areas. After all, tone dialing had to be introduced and those mechanical exchanges with the purring cat as the dial tone had to go.

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Who else remembers their childhood phone number but not the [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 OP

Guilty chicoescuela Dec 3 #1

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #2

Yeah, I always have to reset passwords. mucifer Dec 3 #3

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284-8884 OAITW r.2.0 Dec 3 #4

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sounds like an ambulance chasing lawyer rampartd Dec 3 #15

Was my childhood phone number True Dough Dec 3 #5

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #8

Is that you, Jenny? Xavier Breath Dec 3 #18

From the block? Like JLo? True Dough Dec 3 #33

Main 5 65 21!!! elleng Dec 3 #9

😃 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #11

Hint: Make your next password your childhood phone number.... Sogo Dec 3 #10

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #12

GOOD idea!!!!! elleng Dec 3 #13

I've done that already! catchnrelease Dec 3 #24

lol! FemDemERA Dec 3 #26

Raises hand! virgdem Dec 3 #14

Not only my childhood phone #... fairfaxvadem Dec 3 #16

B-R-549 SalamanderSleeps Dec 3 #17

Not me Faux pas Dec 3 #19

I remember my childhood phone number. It started with WH. Dem2theMax Dec 3 #20

That would be me. NNadir Dec 3 #21

Ours was TRINITY 2-1575 Jeebo Dec 3 #22

Texas-4-3023. Hubby's was - Avenue - something, something. Srkdqltr Dec 3 #32

Ours was ... dsvajda Dec 4 #47

I moved every two years Skittles Dec 3 #23

010 353 4636677 mwooldri Dec 3 #25

7642 - and it was a party line. There were 6 other houses on our line dai13sy Dec 3 #27

Childhood phone number was easy to remember mwooldri Dec 3 #28

Yeeup WestMichRad Dec 3 #29

Anybody remember the "beep line"? crimycarny Dec 3 #30

Remember my phone # from the 1970s and those of 5 or 6 friends AdamGG Dec 3 #31

Wow, I just remembered my neighbor's phone number in Greece 50 years ago. Pompoy Dec 3 #34

These days only mine and my wife's, not the son's and daughter's. Pompoy Dec 3 #38

Vernon 7 -2628 later 837-2628 in late 1950s. PufPuf23 Dec 3 #35

I guess I am older than most of those that replied.... walkingman Dec 3 #36

Yes! snacker Dec 4 #48

Yes snacker Dec 4 #49

I carefully write my passwords down on a piece of paper. Then I only have to remember where I put the piece of paper. hay rick Dec 3 #37

The password I created the other day was my childhood telephone number Brother Buzz Dec 3 #39

Same here. My siblings and I use that number for lots of things. Midnight Writer Dec 4 #57

EL5-7442 bobandrileysmom Dec 3 #40

25 R 12 DallasNE Dec 3 #41

My parents still have the same phone number as when I was a child... RockRaven Dec 3 #42

BRunswick 8 5748 boonecreek Dec 3 #43

Yep IbogaProject Dec 3 #44

Sure Cirsium Dec 4 #45

ARdmore 1-1307 hedda_foil Dec 4 #46

Does the one from age 12 count? By the time i was 12, my family... 3catwoman3 Dec 4 #50

Me. TE-7-3942. Try it. See if I answer. HUAJIAO Dec 4 #51

That's me! KitFox Dec 4 #52

Can't remember that phone number other than it started duncang Dec 4 #53

All the time. Think it through. DFW Dec 4 #54

Yep Figarosmom Dec 4 #55

I remember the one phone number until I moved out at age 16 airplaneman Dec 4 #56

Well, I use a password manager.... CousinIT Dec 4 #58