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Originally Posted by nikki1920
You forget that real phone numbers have 7 or 10 digits, not five. (This was pre-cell phones.)
DAYUM, I feel old as hell typing/reading that.. lol
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I guess I'll be joining you in the senior citizens' section.
We had five-digit extensions too.
One evening during my graduate year, my phone rang. It was some undergrad soliciting money for donations. She started out with, "For a generous $250 donation you can blah blah blah..."
I cut in: "I am a grad student. You know I'm a grad student because YOU CALLED MY DORMLINE. I DON'T HAVE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS."
She then tried to convince me to make a smaller donation because "any donation, no matter how small, counts toward your class's participation numbers." But the damage was done: No donation from me that year.
In retrospect, I guess I was kinda rude, but she pissed me off by just assuming that someone who graduated less than six months ago (grad student or not) would just have $250 laying around.