PHONE NUMBERS
TR7-5775: my mother’s phone number
MI9 2335: my grandparents’’ phone number
GR8-4589: my friend, Kathy’s, phone number
I think it was in the late 80’s when phone companies moved
away from using the combination of letters and numbers as phone numbers and
moved to just numbers. For most people,
that was not a big adjustment. But for
me, these three numbers were numbers that were permanently etched in my brain and
there was not way I was able to make the conversion, no matter how hard I tired. But really I didn’t try too hard.
So my friend, Sam, asks me, “Where can I reach you this
weekend? I’ll call on Saturday.”
“Call me at my mother’s house, TR7- 5775,” I tell her.
“What, give it to me in numbers only,” she insists.
“I don’t know the number, I tell her honestly. I always look for the letters and I’ve never
noticed or connected the numbers.
“You’ve been dialing this number for 25 years and you don’t
know what numbers you dial. Now she is
annoyed at me and sees me as being obstinate.
“Nope, I don’t have I clue.
I just know one think, when I call TR&-5775, my mother answers and
she talks to me in the kindest voice.
She’s always happy to hear form me and that’s all that matters to me”.
