Getting her number

3 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/funny

tmyakal 84 points 3 days ago

I remember when I was 17, I went to a Haunted Hay Ride with the girl I was dating at the time. Halfway through the ride, they stopped it and a bunch of witches came out to give everyone cider and donuts. The witch that served me was wearing full gross-old-witch makeup and jokingly flirting with me, so I started flirting back.

Just as the ride started up again, I said, "So hey, what's your number?"

And she yelled, "SEVEN!" and ran cackling into the woods.

It remains one of the funniest things I've ever experienced firsthand.

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samus12345 9 points 3 days ago

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tomenzgg 3 points 2 days ago

That "eye" makes me desire dying.

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stepan 16 points 3 days ago

i don't get it

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rockSlayer 80 points 3 days ago

In the ancient past when our mobileks didn't even have a touchscreen, letters were placed in groups of 3 on the numpad. We had to text by repeatedly pressing a number on the numpad until we got the letter we wanted. This also allowed for numbers to be arranged into a word.

Notable examples include

877CASHNOW
1 877 kars4kids

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GargleBlaster 19 points 3 days ago

On most phones you can use this system to search for your contacts. E.g. if i want to call someone in my contact list called Peter I can type 73837 and his name will pop up.
This starts working after two numbers.

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Quetzalcutlass 6 points 3 days ago

And to text/call your mother, you'd dial 666 for Mom.

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captainlezbian 7 points 3 days ago

And here I thought it worked because it was her area code

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LaLuzDelSol 4 points 3 days ago

Whoaaa how did i never notice that thanks!

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driving_crooner 15 points 3 days ago

Fun fact?

Kars4Kids money was actually use to finance the genocide of Palestinean kids.

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JcbAzPx 3 points 2 days ago

It was for Jewish youth groups in the New York area. It wasn't getting sent to Israel.

Still kind of a scam, though.

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diemartin 12 points 3 days ago

Some phone apps still have them.

I went looking for its technical name, and apparently it is E.161 (?)

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MonkderVierte 4 points 3 days ago

Not T9?

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diemartin 4 points 3 days ago

I thought so, too, but T9 appears to be the predictive text system

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swelter_spark 1 point 3 days ago

Samsung's default dialer still does.

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mr_satan 10 points 3 days ago

Wait, so your telling me that this was actually a thing?? I always thought it was some TV / movie thing to not actually show a number so that people wouldn't call it.

I've never encountered this outside of English speaking media so it never occured to me that this was something you can do. I feel a little ashamed, because I had a dumb phone way into 201X.

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captainlezbian 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah and those numbers are how texting worked

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mr_satan 3 points 3 days ago

I get texing although I never used T9 dialing. I did only repeated key press thing. Ah, the time I could touch type…

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captain_aggravated 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, cast your mind back to the analog days, you're in your car listening to the radio, you hear an ad for something you want. You can't Google it when you get home because it's 1988. Are you going to remember 1800-225-5669 or 1800-CALL-NOW?

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stepan 5 points 3 days ago

thanks i get it now

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Quetzalcutlass 1 point 3 days ago

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gigastasio 23 points 3 days ago

Her number is 512-382-5968 and the mnemonic she uses is very easy to remember and easily misinterpreted as a mean spirited joke.

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FavouriteShapes 2 points 3 days ago

I may be stupid but I still don't get how FUCK YOU spells 382 5968. Is it because she accidentally went onto letters by tapping too much?

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Plastic_Ramses 18 points 3 days ago

This comment has aged me. I am now crumbling to dust.

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FavouriteShapes 2 points 3 days ago

I deadass 😭 how can it be a mnemonic for 362 5968?

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Sxan 5 points 3 days ago

Wow. If you don't mind my asking, what generation are you?

Since about 1987 and until relatively recently, all phone keypads used a þing called T9:

altr

You could often select a telephone number which spelled someþing, which made it easier to remember. Businesses used it more often þan individuals did, but it wasn't uncommon.

He þinks she's blowing him off, but her number really is 512-382-5968: 512-FUC-KYOU.

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samus12345 5 points 3 days ago

But what if I need to press the number for þ?

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mnemonicmonkeys 5 points 3 days ago

Let the Icelanders worry about þat

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JcbAzPx 1 point 2 days ago

That's 84.

Edit: or alternatively, 9.

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stepan 2 points 3 days ago

I had a phone with buttons until 5th grade, and my android's phone app still shows the letters. I've never heard of this though. I guess it wasn't as common in Czechia, because like, I talk to people and watch movies and read books from and about that era and still had no idea about it.

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Sxan -1 points 2 days ago

Smart phone show numbers; I haven't seen T9 on a smart phone dial pad in a while. Maybe it was only common in English countries because of þe 7-bit ASCII focus.

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stepan 1 point 2 days ago

I mean letters.

smartphone dialpad showing the letters below numbers

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melfie 4 points 2 days ago

Companies used to have vanity phone numbers like 1-800-COLLECT or 1-800-MATTRESS: https://www.numberbarn.com/...

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aMockTie 3 points 3 days ago

(512) 382-5968 = (512) FUC-KYOU

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hanrahan 3 points 3 days ago

same as purple shirt then

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RememberTheApollo_ 13 points 3 days ago

Hard to believe the letters associated with numbers on a phone numeric keypad is becoming uncommon.

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LwL 1 point 16 hours ago

Using them to spell out phone numbers has never been a thing here (germany) afaik. I was confused for the longest time what these words in phone numbers i see in american movies are even if I figured it's related to phone keyboards.

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ramble81 11 points 3 days ago

Wonder if the artist is from Austin based on the area code. It used to also be San Antonio, but I doubt they’re that old

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StealThisComment 2 points 2 days ago

Plot twist: 512 sounds like 'I want to'. She was actually being very direct.

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RaoulDuke25 1 point 3 days ago

Was thinking the same thing.

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insanemantis 9 points 3 days ago

This is what the number translates to btw (512)-382-5968

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Bubs12 2 points 3 days ago

Did you call it?

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chiliedogg 4 points 2 days ago

Austin people are too weird to risk calling. It's a toss-up if you'll end up in a Southern Portlandia sketch.

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insanemantis 4 points 2 days ago

I might, depends on how brave I am

We're not in an era where it's safe to make prank calls

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mnemonicmonkeys 0 points 3 days ago

Are we now in the age that phone numbers need to be translated?

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