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In reply to the discussion: Remember then? What was yours? [View all]Jilly_in_VA
(12,743 posts)31. I'm so old
that we had 5 digit numbers and party lines. Mine was 6-2340 and we had a really obnoxious party-liner who used to get on and claim she had an "emergency" if she heard one of us kids on the line. One time I listened in on her and it was just her gabbing to a friend. I told my mom and she said the next time hand it to her and she would listen and then report her. We did and she did and that was the end of her.
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When I was in elementary school we had five digit phone numbers and party lines.
hunter
Feb 2024
#20
I'll never tell. I still use it for passwords, pins, and combination locks.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2024
#32