1 800 what?
1-866-LOCKUP (er, make that 7LOCKUP, see comments)
That's the Metro Crimestoppers number flashed on WJZ TV news for people who see the suspect in the knifing at the Power Plant.
If I was on the street and saw him, I wouldn't be able to call that number with any confidence at all. I never had a cell phone without a QWERTY keyboard. I never memorized the 1=ABC equivalence. On my phone, the numbers don't match letters the way they do on a standard phone dial. L O K U and P have no numbers on them.
That whole business of a phone number that is a word is ... well ... it's quaint.
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At 7:51 PM, September 17, 2010
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->You'd have to go stand next to an ATM, I guess.
The iPhone has the old fashioned letters on its dialer. I thought my old Nokia did, too, but who can remember these things?
I'd be less than fully confident about dialling that number, too, but for a totally different reason. What struck me about it is that LOCKUP is only six letters; shouldn't there be seven digits after the area code?
Oops.
I clearly didn't remember it even with the "mnemonic" quality. It's 7LOCKUP, in case you're ever in Maryland ;-)
Oh, my, but what would we do with songs like "Pennsylvania 6-5000" [PA6-5000] ?
Seriously, I have the same complaint for the same reason: the BlackBerry doesn't have the 2=ABC thing (2, not 1; there are no letters on 1). The other day, I had to call the US Postal Service customer support number, but the only number I could find where I was looking was "800-ASK-USPS". Foo!
There, see? I couldn't even figure out the right number by making a diagram!
Plus, the songs would stay, just like songs about buggies - or asking the operators and "you can keep the dime". But you'd never give your phone number out as CArmel something if it started with 22.
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