Phone call from deceased mother

[2LaneCruzer]

Our first telephone (obviously not a cell phone number) was 55F23. I think at that time, it would have remained with the house until it was torn down. 55 was our number (Meaning two longs) on Farm line 23.

 

[Oaktree]

Got my first cellphone in 2008, the number they gave me apparently had previously belonged to someone with credit issues, for about the first year I received calls from collection outfits and credit unions trying to collect money.

Had that happen when we bought this house (except it was a landline #). After a few months of constantly hearing from collection agencies and other irate creditors we got a new # assigned, had the phone company give us the one that had been out of service the longest. No more problems.

On the other side of the coin, when I retired I turned in my company cellphone and apparently the company released the number. A year or so later I heard from a former co-worker that he'd tried to call that number, forgetting I didn't have it anymore. A rather irate person answered, and informed him that he wasn't me. Maybe 6 mo later same former co-worker called that number again, and got a different irate person saying he wasn't me either. Guess I was popular...

55 was our number (Meaning two longs) on Farm line 23.

Curiously, what's a farm line? Another name for party line?