[Misc] Is there a person alive...

[Uh_huh_him]

Worthing 67854

The only landline number I can remember,
because it's easy and we all answered the phone saying exactly. that phrase.
I think it went to 267854 after a couple of years because they were running out of numbers.

 

[Mellotron]

Mother in law does it. Absolutely no idea why.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I don't answer the phone if the number isn't recognised. if it's important, they'll leave a message....or text, now they text and I can ignore that as well

 

[Denis]

As a child in the 1950’s we had a ‘party’ line. Sometimes when you lifted the receiver you could hear the other person talking (the people that we shared the line with). I still remember the number, ’Viking 5152’.

 

[Frutos]

841068

That was mine as a kid, which I answered that way in the 90s. Not sure when it died out.

 

[The Clamp]

I rarely get personal calls. My gran and a few mates if they need a quick answer to something.

Unfortunately, for work I get called a lot from withheld / no caller ID at all hours so don’t have the luxury of screening calls.

Don’t tend to get marketing calls anymore for some reason. Used to get them every day .

Why would they have stopped? I’m glad they have though.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

“Easy fam, ya good yeh” is so much more personal I findz

 

[US Seagull]

My mother insisted we answer the phone in such a way when we were kids.

Last time I did it was maybe 1986?

Yeah my mum used to do it all the time. No idea when she stopped. But on the bright side I learnt our home phone number at an early age just from the cadence and rhythm of how she said it. I remember it to this day.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Don’t tend to get marketing calls anymore for some reason. Used to get them every day .

Why would they have stopped? I’m glad they have though.

If you really miss those marketing calls PM your phone # & I'm sure I can make sure you get plenty of those calls.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Whitehall 1212...

 

[Chicken Run]

For those of us of a certain vintage in Brighton during the 80’s

27282

Oh and we could call Worthing no’s by prefixing the number with ‘91’ iirc

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I have a customer in portslade that does it. Bit of a square.

 

[A1X]

Walmington-on-sea 333

 

[hart's shirt]

My local butcher often answers his phone with "Halal. Is it meat you're looking for?"

 

[Javeaseagull]

I still remember my childhood home phone number. It was 4 figures and has been my PIN of choice probably since PINs came in.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

For those of us of a certain vintage in Brighton during the 80’s

27282

Oh and we could call Worthing no’s by prefixing the number with ‘91’ iirc

31 I think

 

[Chicken Run]

Before BT added a 1 to area codes & during the days of the rise of sexy lines 0898 etc my old man was the CE at Sunblest in Woodingdean and on hearing that said numbers were being abused blocked all 089 numbers, one small problem, that meant no one could contact any supermarkets in the Crowborough, Uckfield or Tunbridge Wells area for a week

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Answer by reciting the number? Yeah right. I know it existed in Moulsecoomb in the 70s and early 80s however we got cut off once a quarter and never settled up, so my folks would just open another account and get a new phone and line. Once we’d memorised the number, we’d get cut off again.
Things I’d recall from other people’s houses was a money box by the phone or some sort of price list attached attached nearby, often reminding you to “keep it short”

 

[The Grockle]

My Mum is an ordinary working class women from South East london/Kent but used to answer the phone like a BBC news reader announcing the outbreak of WW2. Our answer phone message also was very funny.

I think it was an old fashioned thing to have a telephone voice. Before the advent of mobile phones I feel like phone calls were much more formal, we'd say things like "who shall I say is calling"

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Who still answers their telephone by stating their phone number?

And if not, when did this die out?

I don't think anyone has ever done it with a mobile phone, unless they were a complete maniac. But when did people stop doing it with landlines, and why? Or why did they do it in the first place, in fact?

I'm considering bringing it back.

Answers their telephone, you say?

My youngest brother did always do that, but he now uses call screening on his landline. As do I.

The only calls I get on my cellphone are from rogue traders. My first words are 'who's calling'. Followed by 'I can't understand what you're saying'. After that they seem to hang up.