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WoW, that kept me entertained for about a min. Was worth it!!

Damn you Tommy Tutone!!!

...cute?

...Oh my god.

My boyfriend had a recycled number when he got his cell a few years ago, and he kept getting calls from drunk girls asking for "Steve" and then insisting that he was there and they had to talk to him. In the middle of the night. It was explained to them that Steve was a loser and couldn't pay his phone bill. Eventually they left us alone. It was fun while it lasted.

"...cute?"???

Had a similar experience James, only it was one girl that kept calling over and over again, ironically for Steve. I finally put on a gay accent and told her he's just not interested in her.

I had a similiar experience as James and Craig, only it wasn't a recycled number. Some carpenter who wouldn't list an ad in the yellow pages had the same name as my dad, so people were always looking up his name and calling us. Oddly enough when he died my dad was attending calling hours for someone else in the same building that his were in. He said he wished he had a camera so he could pose under the sign with his name.

Dan's site isn't exactly a ringing refutation of the legend. The vast majority of 867-5309s he called were not in service, disconnected, or set up to block incoming calls one way or another. Of the ones that were answered, many seem to have sarcastic or joking references to the song, like

"519: ‰ÛÏ[Girl‰Ûªs voice] Hello, you reached Jenny at 867-5309. I‰Ûªd love to talk to you, leave me a message, but there has been a change in me. [Guy‰Ûªs voice] I‰Ûªm not Jenny, not Jenny so if you still wanna leave me a message, leave it at the end of the beep. Bye!‰Û

OK, it's a pretty lame joke, but still it's obviously a joke.

I'd say Dan has definitely proven that there are some local phone companies that do assign the number, but has not disproven that many others have retired the number, or maybe only give it to people who specially request that number because they like the gag or are otherwise seeking attention.

What really amuses me about this is that, although I have a pretty good memory of the 1980s, I'd never heard of that song or of Tommy Tutone before I saw the comments here.

Craig:

"gay accent"--come on, don't make me lecture you.

But it does kind of seem like there's a possibility of an epidemic of Steve's who have problems paying their bills.

As far as the topic of the post, wouldn't it have been easier for the guy to call phone companies requesting information about this?

Hey, it got her to stop calling and that's all that matters.

Phone companies may not be so willing to give out very much information because of privacy laws. On the other hand, they have no problem selling your information to businesses.

God my teeth itch.

I got a recycled # when I moved into the place I'm renting now. People keep calling for Mr Tevaris Levarity. I try to (nicely) explain that he must have cancelled/lost the # & it was reissued to me. This way, they'll stop calling & figure something else out. One night, I'm in the middle of trying to breastfeed a tired, cranky, infant & someone calls. My caller I.D. wasn't working, so I had to interrupt the feeding time, & get the phone. Baby screaming, I begin to tell the man trying to sell me a mortgage that he called the wrong #. He hangs up MID explanation. I was ticked. HE got me up, HE called me...HE was going to apologize. I figured out how to get the caller I.D. back up & called him back. I felt really nice after he groveled for a few minutes...I also made sure the baby was very near the phone so he could hear how upset she was. That particular company has never called back. I only mention them not calling back, b/c the vast majority of people I have explained the "wrong #" story to, continue to call.

You could have just *67'd him a few dozen times, asking for Tevaris. Sound like a psycho.

I had a recycled fax number for about two years. Every day after work I'd get home and have between 5-15 messages on my answering machine of fax machines beeping at me. Now, I don't have a land-line phone and never have a problem. I've had maybe half-dozen wrong numbers since 2002, when I cancelled phone service.

A few of those numbers are in texas. But I don't want to run my cell bill and get in trouble.

My grandma is always getting wrong numbers.

The Rhode Island area code (401) is for Gem Plumbing and Heating... a real company (I've used them). It makes it easy to remember their number... and their TV ads feature the number prominently with a battalion of uniformed plumbing and heating guys jogging like an army group, chanting the number in a cadence like what military guys are supposed to...

KV

The 254 one is in my area. Now if I could only figure out what Bush is McCleanen county home's number is.

i bet you the amount of misdialed numbers has decreased drastically in the past 5 years since most people just hit the send button on their cell phones to connect. no trying to remember numbers and mispunching buttons.

I haven't gotten a misdailed number yet. I don't know if my number is recycled or not.

It was a terrible song to begin with.