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When I got my very first land line phone number I got one that apparently once belonged to someone very popular. I got tons of calls for him for a very long time. I had that number for a long time. It eventually stopped or slowed down at least. I'm pretty sure all phone numbers are recycled. There are only so many.
I once was getting harassing calls from someone and changed my number and my mom got angry with me for doing so, I was still on her plan.
Well she called the cell phone company and they said that my old number had already been reassigned(within a matter of days) and then my mom called the number and told the woman, who was an elderly woman that the number used to belong to me(at the time a teenage girl,17) received/sent over 10,000 text a month and that I got a lot of phone calls daily and asked the woman if she would switch numbers back and she did and it turns out,s he had already received about 25 text in that two days from people who hadn't learned of my number being changed/facebook text coming in and she didn't have a text package or her texting blocked.
Okay, here's a reason to never take a recycled phone number:
After a new policy at my company was implemented, I became an Blackberry owner. The cell phone company that my company uses recycles phone numbers after a period of six months after the previous owner has it. I picked out a number that matches the last four digits of our landline and the consultant assured me that even if that specific number happened to be a recycled number, it wouldn't cause any problems. A few days later, I started receiving very persistant calls for a man who apparently had the phone number previously... this went on for two days until I called back and told them I'm not that person... and it stopped for three or four months, up until the past week... I've received multiple calls per day for the man. A quick search on the WI Circuit Court website reveals this guy has lots of legal problems and apparently owes millions of dollars. Yikes! Lesson learned...
(Luckily, I contacted the phone company today and "I need not worry" as they'll have it "covered so fast it will make my head spin"... so far so good...)
When we had our landline we would get call after call after call for a woman named Sherry. Apparently Sherry had some bad debts and the collection agencies were on it. When we told them that there was no Sherry at this number they didn't buy it so our phone rang off the hook until we finally just disconnected it. It was out of control.
Then after talking to my grandmother she told me that I had just enough for police academy left and I didn't want to spend it and risk not having it later.
Then why haven't you applied to the police academy?
And how did Black Friday go? Were you one of the people working in the dead of night? Was your store busy? (Yes, I have a lot of questions today, lol.)
Then why haven't you applied to the police academy?
And how did Black Friday go? Were you one of the people working in the dead of night? Was your store busy? (Yes, I have a lot of questions today, lol.)
I'm taking time to mature.
No I worked a day shift.
It was dead when I got there.
I'm taking time to mature.
No I worked a day shift.
It was dead when I got there.
Time doesn't mature you. Experience does. You mature by doing things like living on your own and struggling to pay the bills, balancing working 2 jobs and going to school full time, and having kids and working hard to raise them right. Those types of things mature you. Waiting to become mature will not work.
Time doesn't mature you. Experience does. You mature by doing things like living on your own and struggling to pay the bills, balancing working 2 jobs and going to school full time, and having kids and working hard to raise them right. Those types of things mature you. Waiting to become mature will not work.
" Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans"
Time doesn't mature you. Experience does. You mature by doing things like living on your own and struggling to pay the bills, balancing working 2 jobs and going to school full time, and having kids and working hard to raise them right. Those types of things mature you. Waiting to become mature will not work.
Wise, wise words from someone who's been busy "maturing". IMHO, it's in those tough times and struggles, where we do the most maturing. As I've shared with my children...tough times are what shows us what we're really made of, what shows us what we're truly capable of. No matter how old children are, if a parent/grandparent doesn't stop carrying them, they never learn to walk on their own. Sometimes, family and friends need to learn to step back and allow those they care about, to tough it out, suffer and learn from their mistakes and choices. At the time, it might feel like they're abandoning them, but they're actually showing them that they have faith in their abiity to make it on their own.
" Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans"
That's one of my favorite quotes. Thank God John achieved things while he could since he was murdered when he was only 40. By 20 when he was beginning to see success as a Beatle and song writer half his life had been over.
Whenever we go to the MIM I stand in a corner and watch people looking at his Imagine piano. People get very emotional. You can see the old Boomers with their grandkids explaining who John was. I love to see the 20-somethings listening to the song with a smile on their faces. The last time we were there a man was so moved seeing it he had to turn away and leave the room. I suspect that happens a lot.
I'm taking this time to move out and live life differently than I have been. Once I'm out on my own and making it.
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