"Jean B." > wrote in message
...
> sf wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:06:31 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> But if you never actually dial their number, you don't remember what it
>>> is.
>>
>> So true! I don't know anyone's telephone numbers anymore. The only
>> one I know is the home phone of someone I've know since the dark ages
>> and has lived in the same place for 35 years with the same phone
>> number. I tried to port our long time phone number over to my cell,
>> but we'd had the number for so long, being batted back and forth
>> between telephone companies - they lost track of who owned my number.
>> I don't think they've figured it out even after 5+ years because I
>> always get the "disconnected" message whenever I'm curious enough to
>> call it.
>>
> I remember some of my friends' numbers from my youth. And I have my
> parents number, which they got in the mid-1940s. In part, I like having
> it, but some of my childhood friends also remember MY number (without the
> preamble, of course).

I remember the one I had in Wichita. Jackson 40303. But when I was little
I would say 403030. I didn't know when to stop.