LOL

My mother sold coal and had many stories of strange buyers. One involved a woman trying to show she had come into money and could afford a phone. It was a status symbol then. (in a UK Black Country - think Midlands owr kid)

"The phone number is nairer one, nairer one, double fower tyou"

For our US and metrocentric readers, that would approximate to 00442. Perhaps it looses something in the translation.