How very odd....

[hippyhoppy]

I've had to change my land line number (due to horrible nuisance calls) and two things have astounded me...

a) Even though the account is in my ex-husbands name, they changed it for me and gave me my new number straight away...

and b) the new number is exactly the same as the number at my dad's house when I lived at home... with just one digit added... How very bizzare...

Anyhoo.. Just an observation... ;-)

[boxtops]

Aw - the last one is bizarre......

A few years back, I picked up my home phone and without thinking, answered with the number of the phone when I still lived at home. More weird, it was my dad calling me, I don't know who was more taken aback!

[Maydup]

I'm pleased to hear you've managed to change it successfully. You hear of these things taking weeks or causing no-end of confusion. What good news.......

.....and a nice easy number to remember.

[MarkRae]

Coincidence. The human brain is built to recognise patterns and try to make sense of them. Have you ever had a song in your head, turned on the radio and that song is playing? You notice that because it's unusual, but you don't notice the thousands of times when it didn't happen...

[JonnyBoy12]

Good observation, markrae, but they don't often play "tinnitus" on the radio, do they? If so then that would be a coincidence indeed.

[hippyhoppy]

I'm not trying to make it out to be all mystical.. just, errr, a bonkers coincidence.. And a strangely efficient Customer Service Department...!!!!

[classylady60]

Similar to me years ago, when I moved into a house on a different exchange to my parents I had exactly the same telephone number as they had except for the STD code of course.

[JonnyBoy12]

Sorry, am I showing my ignorance here, but STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease, right?

[classylady60]

STD in that context was subscriber trunk dialling....or area code I think it is called now.

[Teddy_boy]

Does this internet stlaker know you post here?

[karenmac60]

Years ago, a friend of my parents lived at a certain house with his mum (rented council house). He got married and left the area and a few years later his mum died. A few years after that his marriage broke up and he decided to move back here and applied for a council house. The first one he was offered was his mum's old house - he took it and still lives there now. Given that there are hundreds and hundreds of council houses in the area it was a bit weird.