Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 14, 2015

Area code 564 is Seattle/Tacoma, Washington.

I always give them (314) 555-3845. The area code is correct but the rest is a null number.

Pluggers can remember their childhood phone numbers better than their current ones.

Dials?

He may have been smokin’ that “legal” dope in Colorado.

Well, from what I see on caller ID, I do.

I always give those who ask 555-1212 ( which was the info # back in the day)

Yes, dial. I still use the rotary phone that replaced the one with the crank on it.

To be fair, these days most people use Smartphones and there’s hardly ever a reason to call your own phone unless you lost it somewhere in the house or it was stolen. So I can excuse people for not knowing their number.

We have our phone number on our checks, big mistake! A lot of businesses copy it down and hound you to death. Charities seem especially bad about this.

I still remember mine from when I was 5 years old. 50 years ago. Phone: GL4-2695. . Address: 9034 NE 28th street, Bellevue, Washington. We had to memorize it for school safety.

I never give out a phone number! If they insist I always say, “Well, you have a problem! Now don’t make your problem my problem! Now, are you going to take my cash for this purchase, or do I need to go somewhere else?"

Remember what?

It appears that I’m the oldest of this crowd of commenters, thus and so I shall speak with the authority of the aged..Our farm phone # (where it cost a BUNCH of money to run the 2-mile line in the early 1900’s) was 2H54 and as I remember my REALLY youthful recalls, it was of the ‘candlestick’ type phone, which meant one had to hold it down with one hand while dialing the number and then picking up the earpiece to get the conversation going.. that is, if no one was already on the party line. (think; ‘The Andy Griffith show’,only circa 1939) All I ever learned at that tender age was not to have my hands on the open wires when the phone rang. That’s a picture of me sticking a knife into the electric outletthat’s been circulating the ‘net for years. It’s been a lot of similar situations that caused me to get to be the ‘electronicgenius’ that I am today. I don’t suppose you want to hear the story about how I learned not to pee on an electric fence, so I’ll quit now.

Well gee, who calls themselves?

And I remember party lines, etc.