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What is the shortest telephone number you can remember??

dreher
The shortest number I can remember is four numbers.  I don't remember 4 numbers well, I was a little kid,  but I remember when they changed to five number phone numbers with every phone number in town now being preceded with a 6. Meaning 7684, became 6-7684.  I don't remember when but at some point the 6 prefix became 636 and suddenly our small town had seven digit phone numbers.

I found some printed pads of paper at my grandfathers house when I was a teenager.  They were printed with the name of his business, the business address and his business phone number.  I'm not joking!!  Gramps business phone number was 27!!!  I think this was from sometime in the thirty's, maybe late twenty's.  

My, my, things sure have changed.  Now my wife puts in 14 numbers when she calls her friends in Russia.  23-24 years ago it cost $2 a minute to call Russia.  I was elated when I was able to get that down to .69 cents per minute!!  Now, this one friend of my wife's will call and they will talk for as long as 4 hours for FREE!!
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  • Butchdog2
    HEE HAW, Junior Sample the used care salesman
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  • Brookwood
    I've been patiently waiting for one of our "Ricci's" to post to this thread so I can say:

    Ricci, don't lose that number!  :D  B)
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  • hillbille
    Brookwood said:
    I've been patiently waiting for one of our "Ricci's" to post to this thread so I can say:

    Ricci, don't lose that number!  :D  B)
    maybe he allready has........
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