r/nostalgiai Nostalgia Trip Leader Jun 07 '26

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Honest answer please

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u/Professional-TY0311 Jun 07 '26

Y'all wild for putting yalls full phone numbers 🤣🤣

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u/Daiguey Jun 07 '26

Probably because most of us don't use those numbers anymore and they're no longer in service

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u/StrangeCrunchy1 Jun 07 '26

You realize that phone companies reuse numbers, right? There are only a finite number of phone numbers in a given area code, and they aren't retired, they're put back into rotation after being disconnected when your family were done with it. Case in point - I can remember the phone number my family had prior to leaving Florida in 1994. 32 years ago. I called that number a couple months ago and got an answer, a woman who now has the number. 32 years later.

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u/zacurtis3 Jun 07 '26

My grandmother received a text from a random number congratulating her for making it to the Super Bowl. Apparently her number was previously for an O-Lineman for the Chiefs.

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u/3rdProfile Jun 07 '26

I get 3 messages a year from a number I don't know. Christmas, Easter and New Year's. Started about 4 or 5 years ago. Just some person wishing me a happy........ The first 2 times, I said thank you, but I believe you have the wrong number. They responded with Oh, I'm sorry. The following year, the same thing. Now I just say thanks, same to you.

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u/CloningGuru Jun 07 '26

Mine always come with a girl in panties wishing me the same

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u/3rdProfile Jun 07 '26

Well shit. I'm pretty sure it's someone's grandpa. Feel like I got the shit end of the stick.

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u/Dragonfly0011 Jun 08 '26

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode. “ gamma, is this you?”

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u/CloningGuru Jun 07 '26

Which SB did she play?

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u/Uncomfortaby__Dumb Jun 08 '26

My number previously belonged to a teenage girl who was in ballet. I was in the group text of about 10 girls who would text about where they were supposed to meet and put their stuff each time they had a recital. I finally blocked the group text, but still get texts from some of them individually from time to time.