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New in Town: Don't Call Me; I'll Call You

Why do I have to dial 203 IN Stamford?

Although we’ve only been living here for a few months, if you were to ask me for my phone number right now, I could give it to you without a moment’s hesitation.

Unfortunately, that’s only because right now I’m sitting at my computer and I have the phone number scrawled on a dry erase board next to it. If you were to ask me for my number on the street, there would be a lot more than a moment’s hesitation; you might think I was trying to hide something. Unless, of course, I was carrying my dry erase board around with me.

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that three or four months would be sufficient time to memorize your own phone number. Especially since I could tell you the phone number we had in the Queens apartment I grew up in and that I haven’t had occasion to use for over three decades and actually started with letters (MI) instead of numbers.

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And what is it with the friggin’ area codes in Stamford? I’m in 203, you’re in 203, so why the heck do I have to dial 203 to call you? Do I really need an area code to call someone I can see out my window? I didn’t have to dial 914 to call someone in Westchester when I lived in Westchester. Maybe Westchesterans are more secure in their identities than Stamfordians.

Anyway, if you want to call me, my number is 203-5...oh no! I erased my phone number!

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