To me, any area code lacking a 0 or 1 as the second digit is tantamount to a third world phone number. I was in NJ when the beloved 609 was driven off the Shore by the barbaric 732. It was the beginning of the end for me.

Nobody who works for DL involved in that decision, certainly.

I always wondered who drew that number.

I will hold on to my 609 cell number for as long as humanly possible. ^ I'm old enough (:eek:) to remember when NJ had two area codes: you were either 609 or 201, and that was it.

I grew up in the small area of Maryland that was solely 301, then 301/410, now 240/301/410/443 with two more reserved. I have family members in the same county (Calvert) with four different area codes. :rolleyes:

Right. And instantly knew: north or south. This group is certainly well traveled and savvy enough to know location simply by 213, 202, 212, 312, 404, and even the second string, 414, 808... But 538? 770? Who the hell knows where they are? And as icurhere2 points out, they could be across the street.

I can top "across the street". There were newspaper stories when 732 numbers started to populate describing how parents were installing bedroom phone lines for their kids and having the kids' bedrooms be in a different area code since 201 had long since run out of numbers.

50 pages to go in the current book. Not going to finish it tonight, and I'm getting tired.

Night, Box.

The B&N wishlist is back into unmanageable territory: 24 titles.

Parents are often moved to think that having the kids' bedrooms in a different area code would not be a bad idea. But I know what you're saying.

Midnight in the 512 area code. 'Night.

G'night Box.

Also midnight "in the 931"*

* Translation - middle Tennessee except Nashville

Fixed.:-:

^

Aha!

I live in 609 land (previously 225, before that 203), but am hanging on to my 617 cell phone for sure. IMHO it's one of the cooler area codes out there (and also basically a "retired" one), though nothing beats 212. :D

My poor sister just paid USAir over $50 to check two bags. She's going home for the summer tomorrow morning (I have to get up in all too few hours to drive her to EWR). I wish there was some way we could have avoided having to do that. :(

Not in south Florida. The area you write about is in Central Florida, by Cape Canaveral/Melbourne. Dade County has two area codes: 305 and 786. 786 spells S-U-N.:-: