Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for October 31, 2020

Bingo

Your old phone number had special characters?

857-5309

I’ve used a very old number as a password in the past. I thought that after more than 20 years of moving from there it was pretty safe. However, one day I opened an account on an online store and one of their questions was if THAT number was familiar to me. I don’t use it anymore.

We used our land line as our “club card” I.D. for all those safeway, Fred Meyer, etc stores. So we will always remember it. I’ll check every year or so and see if the number gets reassigned

I read the last line and immediately, and correctly, repeated my last landline phone number, which hasn’t existed since April 2007. I said it out loud and my wife responded, “That’s our old phone number.” We are both in our 70’s. This is spooky.

At least you won’t be handing out your password to strangers anymore.

I suspect most people can still remember the phone number they had when they were children. To tell my age, my phone number started with Greenwood 8-