My dad still does it, he's 82. He also insisted that me and my brother answered the phone like that when we were young. Nowadays I ever so occasionally find myself answering the landline, and having to resist my brain telling me to say the old number from 30 odd years ago. Its still in their on autopilot.
Yes.
We were Woking 5543! on a party line.
I remembered mine like this 07991 40 38 26, only because someone asked me for my number when I got a new phone and I had it written down, they told me to learn the first 5 and the rest in groups of 2.
I think I know my husband's, but I doubt he knows mine.
I've just switched to fibre so don't have a landline anymore but the number I did have was an old taxi one that I still recall from the days when being able to recall a small selection of cab numbers while ratarsed was a useful skill. Fortunately I never plugged a phone in. Also fortunately when I called to cancel my old ISP I had no useful documentation to hand but was able to do so because I had perfect recollection of a phone number I'd never used and never given to anyone since I got it a decade before.
I do, but that only because we had consecutive numbers when mobiles became a thing and bought the contract at the same time. He still has the same one.
