Bakers Dozen

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)

I feel weird and old whenever I start to call her number and think “RA8…”

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135

It’s still my parents’ number, although with a different area code now. My cellphone number is very close to that number.

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892
  9. 567-6128 double ring (party line- single ring was my grandmother)

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892
  9. 567-6128 double ring (party line- single ring was my grandmother)
  10. 836-5437 - My parents have had it since 1970 and counting…

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892
  9. 567-6128 double ring (party line- single ring was my grandmother)
  10. 836-5437 - My parents have had it since 1970 and counting…
  11. 639-2743

And we had a sticker on the rotary that said ME9-2743.

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892
  9. 567-6128 double ring (party line- single ring was my grandmother)
  10. 836-5437 - My parents have had it since 1970 and counting…
  11. 639-2743
  12. 646-4859

My parents had that number from before I was born until shortly before my dad passed away in 2013. When my mom died in 2011, he cancelled it and took the number that had been mine when I was a teenager.

The earliest home telephone number you can remember your family having.

  1. 7-W
  2. 739-2693, long before area codes
  3. 835-7221
  4. 571 (in a tiny village in North East Scotland in the 1980s)
  5. RAvenswood 8 - … (I can’t tell you because my Mom is STILL at that number!)
  6. WYoming 1-3604 (yes, it was a “party line”)
  7. 385-1135
  8. 797-6892
  9. 567-6128 double ring (party line- single ring was my grandmother)
  10. 836-5437 - My parents have had it since 1970 and counting…
  11. 639-2743
  12. 646-4859
  13. 272-8915

Actually the second number, but I’d already used the earliest.

So for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, a romantic thread:

Substitute the word ‘add’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)
  6. Cross My Ass (Bruce Springsteen)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)
  6. Cross My Ass (Bruce Springsteen)
  7. Assbreaker (Grand Funk Railroad, Pat Benatar, Mariah Carey, et al.)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)
  6. Cross My Ass (Bruce Springsteen)
  7. Assbreaker (Grand Funk Railroad, Pat Benatar, Mariah Carey, et al.)
  8. Ass Of Glass (Blondie)

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)
  6. Cross My Ass (Bruce Springsteen)
  7. Assbreaker (Grand Funk Railroad, Pat Benatar, Mariah Carey, et al.)
  8. Ass Of Glass (Blondie)
  9. Wooden Ass (Fred Wise, Bert Kaempfert, Elvis Presley)

“Can’t you see, I love you. Please don’t break my ass in two. That’s not hard to do 'Cause I don’t have a wooden ass.”

Substitute the word ‘ass’ for the word ‘heart’ in a well known song title or lyric.

  1. I Left My Ass in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
  2. Ass Of My Ass (The Four Aces)
  3. Piece of my ass (Janis Joplin)
  4. You gotta have ass (Eddie Fisher, from Damn Yankees)
  5. Total Eclipse of the Ass (Bonnie Tyler)
  6. Cross My Ass (Bruce Springsteen)
  7. Assbreaker (Grand Funk Railroad, Pat Benatar, Mariah Carey, et al.)
  8. Ass Of Glass (Blondie)
  9. Wooden Ass (Fred Wise, Bert Kaempfert, Elvis Presley)
  10. Brokenassed (Karmin)