# Frustration with our "Home" phone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frustration-with-our-home-phone/812659>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frustration-with-our-home-phone/812659 "2018-04-18T20:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frustration-with-our-home-phone/812659/21 "2018-04-23T15:49:38Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> But thing is a phone number can get in a database and can be hard to get out.

Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Last week, I got a call from someone who had my phone number from long ago, when it belonged to Mr. X. She was looking for Mr. X for family reunion purposes. I was glad to help as much as I could. In this case, being in an obsolete database was a good thing.

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