For the better part of my life, we had a landline phone: 2 longs and 2 shorts were our number on a party line.
Then,
technology brought a dial desktop phone.
Our phone
number was (217) 734-2076. I dialed that number for my entire adulthood. Hi, mom!
Could you tell me the recipe for……
Now, Mom is gone. The phone number has been deactivated, although I have tried it many times. It made me feel good even though it would never answer.
If I have a
question or need directions, I must access Google. I must also remember and connect with my
passwords, all the while wrestling with Windows. It never ends.
Mom’s phone
number? I will never forget it. Oh, how I miss her.
I love this Susan!
ReplyDeleteOh, those precious things that were so much a part of our lives that are gone now. I still email Daddy's address. I'm not sure where the messages go, but it feels good to do it!
It does somehow comfort me to do that.
DeleteMy Mom passed last year and her answering service still has her voice. I love to hear it and I miss her so much. Hugs to you!
ReplyDeleteI wish that were so for me!
DeleteI have certain numbers I still remember after YEARS. :)
ReplyDeleteThey have a special meaning.
DeleteUy como pasa el tiempo hay cosas que nunca se olvidan . Te mando un beso
ReplyDeleteSame here. At night when I am trying to sleep, those memories pop up.
DeleteMy childhood phone number is my password for so much. I'd use my address, but 729 is just to short.
ReplyDeleteNever thought of that # as a password!
DeleteI have some of those old numbers permanently installed in my memory banks. And yes, the number for home is definitely one of them.
ReplyDeleteIt is the number I called almost every week.
DeleteI remember the first phone number I got and I remember my grandparents number, too. What a way to pay homage to your mother, Susan.
ReplyDeleteI miss her more and more.
DeleteI never remembered my mum's phone number, if I wanted to call her I had to look it up in the "addresses" pad beside the phone. We weren't strong communicators though, cards at Christmas and birthdays was enough for us.
ReplyDeleteI wish that were not part of your family's lives.
Deletetouching sharing dear Susan !
ReplyDeletewe too had dialing phone and i used to dial mom's number either
i miss her too ,i still think may i pick up and mom says it's me ,can't be true but no control over what heart longs right
Well said.
DeleteThat's a number you'll never forget.
ReplyDeleteThat number is so ingrained.
DeleteWhen I was a kid and we were on an operator-assisted party phone line, our phone number was 365-W. Our neighbour (the other party) was 365-J. It was a small town -- we didn't need longer numbers, LOL!
ReplyDeleteOur operator Laura Jane was like a GPS. If Mom was wondering where we had wandered off to. She knew.
DeleteIt took me a long time to be willing to get a call phone. I do find it to be a useful tool but I dislike being that connected to anyone. I still have a land line. It is paid for years at a time because it is through the internet so I'll keep it too.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a few years to ease into Windows.
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ReplyDeleteI still remember all three numbers my parents had over the years.
ReplyDeleteOur farm number L2S2 (long, short) still sticks, too.
DeleteI still remember my childhood phone number. Those numbers are imprinted on our brains somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that many people have that phone # to enjoy.
DeleteThere's just some things you never forget and my home phone number is one of them.
ReplyDeleteGives me a good feeling.
DeleteMy mother passed away in 1974...she was only 54 years old...far too young. I miss her still...and always will.
ReplyDeleteWe never had a telephone during my childhood. It was off to the the phone booths or the phones at the Post Office we went in the rare times we needed to make calls.
I still only use a landline phone. I don't have a mobile/cell phone, and have no desire to get one. I do have dual-digital phones now, though. My old desk sits by feeling useless. (Similar to how I feel at times!) :)
Take good care. :)
I insisted on having a land line and mobile.
DeleteI remember those designated rings and party lines. Since we moved every few years I do remember Our last one: TAlmage 5-2366.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I feel sorry for someone who had a mama they do not miss. I still remember a neighbor lady who said, "I gotta go over to mama's again, If she wasn't my mama I wouldn't even like her!"
Anyway, yes we understand, we too miss our mama's. They were so SPECIAL.
Sherry & jack
This was a nice visit, thanks. lots of memories kicked in.
We will see the space warrior (age 42) with his little boys. I will tell him this story, again.
DeleteI remember being fascinated with my grandmother's party line back in the day! (I still have a land line, but it's all mine!)
ReplyDeleteThere was not privacy on a party line.
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