Phone numbers you remember from childhood

[stui magpie]

Who remembers their home phone number from childhood? Other numbers?

We had a manual exchange when I was a kid so it was easy.

Home was 338
My grandparents were 90
The milkbar was 92
The pub was 17 when mum needed to call them to tell dad to GTF home

Back then if you were dialling in from an automated exchange (which was 99% of the country) the area code was 058 and you had to add 742 to the front of the phone number and zeroes if the number was less than 3 digits.

[Culprit]

Shit Stui, I remember the phone number 306 9046. I remember the Broadmeadows Mayoral HK Premier rego KEC 935 as Dad who was mayor at the time was driving home drunk (you could do it back then) and wiped out the Car on the local milk horse and milk supplies dried up for a few days. Why I remember this shit and cannot remember yesterday is strange.

[stui magpie]

hah, I get you, I remember shit from back then and have to look at my phone to know what day it is.

[Morrigu]

^ I don't think we had a phone until I was in my teens - we was poor!

Anyway it's just old fart syndrome 😀😀😀

As we grow older, the amount of time our short-term memory can store information becomes shorter and shorter. Age, and other clinical conditions, makes us more likely to have trouble keeping up with certain tasks, like remembering which button to push in a bank's phone menu.

It also gives our brains less time to successfully move new information to long-term memory, making us more likely to forget details of recent events

http://www.brainhq.com/brain-resources/memory/types-of-memory/short-term-memory

[What'sinaname]

867-5309 I can't remember who lives there though

Also

555-2368 is you need to bust a ghost.

[think positive]

3981380, our first house in Australia, from about may 1971, we got here in November 1970 just after the bridge fell down.

[piedys]

[Mountains Magpie]

I don't think I'll ever forget my home number from when I was a kid. Nor my beloved Gran's number. In my mind I can still hear her answering the phone and she's been gone nearly 25 years. Likewise, the rego plate of the family car is burned into the grey matter.

Cool thread😀

MM

[Morrigu]

[stui magpie]

[ronrat]

If you're havin' trouble with the high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in his bed
Here's what you gotta do
Pick up the phone, I'm always home
Call me any time
Just ring 36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime[/quote]

Which caused some yank wank to complain that people where ringing him and sued ACDC leading to the 555 thing.

[Tannin]

999. That was the number for an ambulance. Except, of course, that it wasn't. Not here. But you used to see it in lots of books because everything was printed in England.

[David]

[sixpoints]

[Pies4shaw]

634-5789

Pennsylvania 65000