Imagine being the parents of Bai he's classmates. Every time they go to pick up their children from school, they see a handsome young man waiting for the dismissal bell to ring.
He's gotten a total of 43 phone numbers from all genders and species, and he has rejected each one. He still gets embarrassed though.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE PHONE NUMBER COST MILLIONS, IN 2006, QATAR TELECOM HOSTED A CHARITY AUCTION WHERE THEY SOLD THE PHONE NUMBER 666 6666. IT SOLD FOR $ 2.75 MILLION, BOUGHT BY AN ANONYMOUS BIDDER.
Tonight I was thinking about things, as one does, and I came to a point in my thoughts where I needed a random number. So I let my brain fill one in. Then I realized it sounded familiar.
It took me a while to place it, but I realized that "random number" was actually my dad's old phone number (probably hasn't been used in over 6 years - he lost the phone and switched to using his work phone). I haven't thought about that number in years, but I guess it still lives in the deep recesses of my brain.
I kinda wonder how many phone numbers are down there. I mean, there are a fair number that I can easily recall. (Just off the top of my head: four or five movie theaters, my mom, my brother, my dad's work cell, an old number for my workplace, my mom's old work number, two numbers for my grandparents' houses, several customers in the rewards program at work...) How many are down there that I can't immediately recall?
Ever wonder why big cities have simpler area codes? Back in the day, dialing lower numbers like "1" or "2" on a rotary phone took less effort. So, the most populated areas got the easiest codes to dial!