Phone numbers you remember

Is it weird that I remember the call-in line tied to the 1989 movie Little Monsters? (1-900-89-MAURICE). An ad for it aired at the end of the VHS.

 

I don't remember my previous cell number but I remember the phone number from the house I spent the first 6 years of my life in. Only because my dad wrote it on my first baseball glove in case I lost it.

 

…. thump.

 

My parents still have their landline in addition to their cell phones.

I’ve also had to catch myself a few times when I’ve changed jobs because I start giving out my old work number.

 

I have a weird probably-on-the-spectrum thing with remembering numbers, so I’m in the minority here in that I know all of my kids’ mobile numbers as well as pretty much every phone number I’ve ever dialed.

None of my kids’ area codes match the city in which they currently live, and in the case of my youngest, her area code matches a city in which she never actually lived (long story; she was living in rural North Carolina at the time, changed her carrier and didn’t choose to keep her number, and somehow got a Charlotte number.)

I’ve noted that going forward, your area code does not tell people where you live now, it tells them where you lived when you were in eighth grade.

 

I can tell you the number of most of my friends from elementary though high school. I have a strange ability to remember things.

 

My daughter got a cell phone this year and it has a 659 area code. 659 is the overlay for 205 that virtually no one recognizes. 205 was the original statewide area code and still signifies Birmingham (or Tuscaloosa) instantly. My ex and I got 205 numbers a year before we actually moved back to Alabama because we knew we were coming home after I finally graduated from Kennesaw State.

It feels vaguely disturbing that my own flesh and blood is not a 205 girl.

 

Wife and two sons' cell phones
Home landline
Mom's cell and landline
Own cell phone (duh)
Office direct line
Landline numbers from two home numbers prior to going to college
Law School landline
two landlines with wife
Old office numbers (3 prior firms)

I also have an uncanny ability to recall number sequences

 

Nothing but my phone, the phone we had growing up, my dad's because I've had to give it out so often, and Empire.

I don't remember how we kept tracks of numbers. I probably knew my friends' numbers and my dad's office. The pizza place? No idea.

 

GARFIELD 1, 2-3, 2-3!

 

In the Bay Area, dailing POPCORN would get you the time and temperature.

My number was 937-8281. My best friend's number was 933-1228. My other good friend was 935-2604. KFRC's Walnut Creek hotline was 939-2121.

I have no idea what I ate for lunch but I can rattle those off from more than 50 years ago.