I started working at a cellular company in the early 90s. Everyone in my hire group got assigned sequential numbers. Occasionally we’d get calls (this was before texting took off in the US) for people a digit or two off. When the caller asked for the person they were trying to reach, I’d respond with something like “You dialed NPA-NXX5, Bob’s number is NPA-NXX6.” Sometimes the callers, not knowing how I knew this, were very surprised.
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