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Posted by betelgeuse206265@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 14 comments
I was just talking with my kids and telling them how we could call a phone number to know the time when I was younger. It was 767-2676 (POPCORN) where I grew up. Is this a regional thing? My wife grew up in a completely different region of the country and never knew about this.
Did you call a phone number to find out the time? Where did you grow up?
imlookingatthefjord@reddit
We had a local number we called for time and temperature.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit
In my area it was area code+555-1212 for information in general. I was told that was it nationwide but no clue if that was true.
Spartan04@reddit
That was the way to get long distance directory assistance since it worked for every area code. The time was usually a different number.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit
Ohh. In my area, you could ask for the time, any number (not just long distance), or any number of random things
Spartan04@reddit
I forget what the number was but we did have that where I grew up in the Midwest. Makes sense when you think about how we used to have to set all our clocks manually so sometimes you needed a reference.
username32768@reddit
In the UK, the number is 123.
xt0rt@reddit
652-1415
joe-gonna-go@reddit
There were two for me. Time and temp, and time with current temp and weather
ThisIsACompanyCar@reddit
210-226-3232 Frost bank time…downtown temperature, hot as fuck.
ughyoujag@reddit
Yes! We did this in the late night hours all through junior high and high school. We called the voice “Stan”
rosephoenix19@reddit
Interesting_Tea_6734@reddit
Bay Area and dialing Popcorn was definitely something to do for a few minutes if you were bored, or wanted to pretend you were trying to call Grandma to say thank you for the new sweater
betelgeuse206265@reddit (OP)
Hmmmm. I wonder if this was local to the Bay Area…
usernames_suck_ok@reddit
Sometimes. I don't know what the number was, though. Nor why I ever did it. Watches and clocks were always a thing, so...(maybe we were trying to set them sometimes?).
But I'm from "the Mid-South."