Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

Too right I did! Still use some of them for 'other purposes' these days.

 

[Pblakeney]

Too right I did! Still use some of them for 'other purposes' these days.

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I still know current numbers off the top of my head along with several from decades ago.
But to the follow up question, yes, we all had address books.

 

[briantrumpet]

I still know current numbers off the top of my head along with several from decades ago.
But to the follow up question, yes, we all had address books.

Indeed we did. I've got lazy about remembering mobile numbers, especially as they don't have the localised patterns, let alone the STD codes... my first own landline number was '223' that then got 61 added on the front (grr!), and all Topsham numbers ended up 87xxxx for the same reason. I picked my French mobile number as it starts with the old STD code for Plymouth, 0752.

There's only one person I know who still answers the phone by saying his number... he still says the first digit quite deliberately as it was added to the 5-digit Exeter numbers in the 1990s. I'll let him off, as he's 94.

 

[Pblakeney]

Indeed we did. I've got lazy about remembering mobile numbers, especially as they don't have the localised patterns, let alone the STD codes... my first own landline number was '223' that then got 61 added on the front (grr!), and all Topsham numbers ended up 87xxxx for the same reason. I picked my French mobile number as it starts with the old STD code for Plymouth, 0752.

There's only one person I know who still answers the phone by saying his number... he still says the first digit quite deliberately as it was added to the 5-digit Exeter numbers in the 1990s. I'll let him off, as he's 94.

Yup, my first phone number only had 3 digits. It was later expanded and now serves other purposes so no sharing 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

Yup, my first phone number only had 3 digits. It was later expanded and now serves other purposes so no sharing 😉

Sometimes one needs a number that's really stuck in the memory... "2nd digit...4th digit...5th digit" 😉🤣

I've still got a few currently 'unused' firmly memorised numbers should I need them, going back 40 years or more.

 

[AndyRM]

Erm?

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[secretsqirrel]

I still know current numbers off the top of my head along with several from decades ago.
But to the follow up question, yes, we all had address books.

We didn’t need address books. We had the books that landed with a huge thump on the door step, the telephone directory and the yellow pages. People used to prove how strong they were by tearing them in half.

Numbers were shorter which was a good thing because of proper dialling, you could lose yourself half way through with the longer numbers we have today.

Through the act of dialling the number was absorbed into the memory and so after a few times you just remembered them.

 

[First Aspect]

The thing with landlines was being able to re use area codes for several people in the same area.

 

[Pblakeney]

We didn’t need address books. We had the books that landed with a huge thump on the door step, the telephone directory and the yellow pages. People used to prove how strong they were by tearing them in half.

Numbers were shorter which was a good thing because of proper dialling, you could lose yourself half way through with the longer numbers we have today.

Through the act of dialling the number was absorbed into the memory and so after a few times you just remembered them.

I had family and friends outside of my phonebook area. 😉

 

[First Aspect]

I had family and friends outside of my phonebook area. 😉

Hope this helps. £9 from Amazon.

Edit - amazed they still exist.

 

[briantrumpet]

I had family and friends outside of my phonebook area. 😉

How are children whose remaining parent dies going to contact all the friends that once would have been in a parent's address/phone book? (From experience, having had to do just that a few years ago.)

 

[briantrumpet]

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Hope this helps. £9 from Amazon.

Edit - amazed they still exist.

Ha, my gran had one of those, cos she was posh and had a phone (as well as colour TV). First phone in my parents' house was when I was 15.

 

[First Aspect]

Ha, my gran had one of those, cos she was posh and had a phone (as well as colour TV). First phone in my parents' house was when I was 15.

When did you stop using candles to light the way to the outhouse at night?

 

[secretsqirrel]

I had family and friends outside of my phonebook area. 😉

So did I.

I wrote to them.…..

 

[briantrumpet]

When did you stop using candles to light the way to the outhouse at night?

When I accidentally set fire to the bog paper.