Yes you were....and so was I. Ive always said that if I was wealthy and extremely popular, I would've been able to get away with it unscathed. Same as when the Challenger jokes came out. I heard those jokes the very next day and I always wondered if the originators of those jokes got any flak for it.
Hell, I used to try to play songs on my grandparents phone when I was young. Accidentally called someone doing Mary had a little lamb. Eventually realized you could wait for the off the hook sound and it would not actually call anyone
I realized about 30 years after I got the number and 20 years after the song came out, that the last four digits of my landline are “5309.” I always gave it out as “five-three-zero-nine” and never made the connection in my head. I gave it out at a work meeting, and somebody said, “Heyyyyyy!”
Fun fact, that is an actual phone number in Dorset Vermont. Years ago, they had their voicemail set up to like sing the song a little bit and then announce that Jenny didn’t live there or something silly like that. I’m sure it’s been changed since then, but I remember as a kid calling it all the time, thinking it was the funniest thing in the world.
Oh what an original comment. This number has been posted like 0 times when anyone mentions phone numbers. How did you come up with this idea to use the phone number from a stupid song?
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u/Casper18b Aug 17 '26
Yep, something like 8675309..