Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 20, 2020

I don’t remember the telephone number of my Clallam County, Washington childhood home, but I do still remember that of that in Lewis County, Washignton.

Been there done that……

I can’t recall any of my parents’ numbers but I do recall my grandmother’s. I was helped back in the ’70s when a Reading switcher I passed by every morning wore the same last four digits (until Conrail renumbered it.)

At ten my Mom would put me on the Red Street Car to ride from central LA to San Pedro to visit my sister and her husband. I got the bus on South Gaffey St in Downtown San Pedro and rode to my sister’s house. I had some coins and two phone numbers, my Mom’s and my sister’s. I still know them by heart. Sadly neither can pick up any more….

I know that feeling

Me, too, with the first two “numbers” as letters. I also remember childhood friends’ numbers that I haven’t needed for over 50 years! Strange what sticks in our minds. Now, what did I have for lunch yesterday? Hmmmmm.

you don’t have to remember, just look it up on the cell phone, under settings > my number.

Put tape on phone . Write number on tape :-)

why? does she call it????

Yeup.

I don’t remember my childhood phone number. I lived in a small town and saw the kids that might have called me every day almost. No forms to fill out, no verification for accounts, no crafts people to call back, etc.

I’ve told my girls they can never change their phone numbers; I won’t be able to learn them. Eldest daughter lived in Harford County from her marriage to when she moved to SC. I will either dial her number or my parents. Neither number has been working for eons.

Ask me anyone I know’s phone number and you will get a funny look: I do still know the phone number for a friend of mine’s mother, but that is because it is the same as it was in 1972 when he told me the number.

My childhood phone number is still my parents’ phone number, though not the same place.

BR-549

My childhood phone number was 3 digits long. There was no phone book because we had an operator. If you wanted to call someone not in town, you told the operator. When I was 12, the town erected street signs and distributed house numbers because the phone system was going state-wide and we needed a phone book (we never did put the house number up—as far as I know it is still sitting on the window ledge where it sat for 40 years). I remember those 3-digit phone numbers and the 7-digit numbers that followed. I also can remember the dozens of numbers from my first jobs, which I had to call every week. But anymore I always double-check when I have to write down or tell someone my phone number, just to be sure. And forget family and friend phone numbers — if my phone disappears, I’ll be in real trouble.

I remember my grandmother’s phone number from 1967 but I still have to look up my own. (since 1995)

Old addresses, phone numbers, & license plate numbers make great computer passwords. Not that I know anyone who does that…

mea culpa. (our first # was 488R – when we got a dial phone it was FL7-4442 :-| )

My phone number in Chicago in 1953 was NEvada 8-8768 at 3435 West Van Buren (now a medical center). When we moved to Indiana our number was 272M. The phone number of one of the businesses in town was 6.

I think today’s strip illustrates my theory that what you learned when your brain was young and fresh stays with you longer. I can remember my dad answering the phone (back in the days of exchanges) saying “Stewart three seven six seven nine”. That was our phone number from when I was 5 until I was 24. Another thing to note if you share a residence and have a land line you might have reason to call that number. How often do you have to call your cell number? BTW, I was born in 1954.

That would be me. 334-M in the early 1950’s and later 359-R when we moved in 1958.

Two numbers from my childhood that are forever engraved in my mind: the old phone number, and the license plate number on that old 1950s Chevy station wagon.

When we first moved to Anaheim, we were assigned an number from the Keystone exchange (KE). In the mid 60’s, Pac Bell dropped the exchange names and converted everything to numbers only. It was still the same number, though (53 instead of KE). I still remember that number and my grandmother’s number in Oregon. I don’t have a problem remembering my own number, but my husband has to ask me for his own every time.

My mom has hers taped to the back of her cell phone.

Pennsylvania 6-5000.

Upon my mothers death I get her home phone number for my cell. I will FINALLY know my cell number!! Yes, she is aware and cool with it. :-)

I can remember my number just fine from having to give it out all the time, to trusted sources only, of course, plus I’ve had the same number, cell, since the 90s. It’s everyone else’s numbers I can’t remember, even though I call or text them frequently. I just hit their contact and dial or text away.

This is way too true to be funny.

We just recently lost our home land line phone # of 50+ years when my mom moved too far away to keep it. I know I won’t forget it. The one strange thing I do remember from long ago is my dad’s call sign for his CB radio. He had it for about 3 years until I was 9 and we left the area where he could use it. I am 63 and still remember it. I hadn’t thought about using it as a password or PIN. That’s a great idea!

Well, I don’t call MYSELF! I knew my childhood phone number because I used to call it.

I remember my childhood number, and use it as a PIN. I don’t remember the number we had in the small town we moved to, but then we didn’t have it that long before I left for the Air Force. The landline number we got when we bought our house is still with us, two moves later, but all we get on it is spam and scam calls, so when our contract expires, it’s history.

A Plugger doesn’t remember the alternate site to go to when Pluggers doesn’t appear on a Sunday.

Sunday Glitch…BEAR with them

https://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Pluggers/

Didn’t we see this just recently? I remember talking about using my childhood phone prefix, with the word, as a password these days!

Oh I just remembered a great bit from All In The Family! Edith is calling the doctor, and she’s in a panic, and starts dialing, “It’s Murray Hill 7 – 1234 (or whatever)”. Then she hangs up and says, "Oh wait, they use just numbers now! " and starts dialing again - THEN gets this astonished look on her face -- “It’s the SAME THING!!!!”

i got one with just two numbers, easier to remember