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True Dough

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17. "I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night"

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Feb 6, 2026, 08:54 PM

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I clicked on this thread expecting to read that you dialed a 1-900 number.

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I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night. [View all] LuckyCharms Yesterday OP

Things have changed so much. markodochartaigh Yesterday #1

Check this out! You used to be able to buy cigarettes... LuckyCharms Yesterday #3

Sure, markodochartaigh Yesterday #9

I'm a few years older and I did all that stuff too FakeNoose Yesterday #2

I remember dropping mine in the snow! LuckyCharms Yesterday #5

You didn't have a sort machine? unblock Yesterday #4

I don't think so... LuckyCharms Yesterday #6

Wow, what a memory! FakeNoose Yesterday #13

That you are able to share that story; priceless. cachukis Yesterday #7

OMG, I remember typing out those punch cards Ocelot II Yesterday #8

LOL LuckyCharms Yesterday #12

Hahahahaha!! unblock Yesterday #15

so luckycharms is code for insert real name here? msongs Yesterday #10

Yes LuckyCharms Yesterday #11

SHE WAS A HUMAN RIGHT??? and she WILL remember all you said, ok, May-be half of what you told her... a kennedy Yesterday #14

I'll bet that young lady put LuckyCharms in the front of her Rolodex FakeNoose Yesterday #16

Yes! Definitely human! We had a long conversation... LuckyCharms Yesterday #18

"I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night" True Dough Yesterday #17

What is a 1-900 number? LuckyCharms Yesterday #19

I've seen True Dough Yesterday #20

Do you have these numbers... LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #21

I could check, True Dough 23 hrs ago #22

Things have changed so much and so fast Wicked Blue 21 hrs ago #23

The safest jobs in America are the plumbers and electricians, they will never be laid off FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #24

I told my daughters many times to learn plumbing Wicked Blue 7 hrs ago #32

At TAM my husband could not use the mainframe until night when it was available. efhmc 10 hrs ago #25

That sounds familiar! LuckyCharms 9 hrs ago #31

I remember that from university. The Madcap 9 hrs ago #26

Did you ever ask her how she got your phone# and knew your DU Name? Fla Dem 9 hrs ago #27

I didn't ask, but I'm a regular contributor to the university LuckyCharms 9 hrs ago #28

OK, thanks. Just found it ominous that she was able to connect your DU name with your phone #. Fla Dem 9 hrs ago #29

I'm sorry, I don't think I worded my OP well... LuckyCharms 9 hrs ago #30

Attending ticker tape parades in NYC though several decades there was the time that.... electric_blue68 5 hrs ago #33

Former "batch station operator " here WestMichRad 2 hrs ago #34