In Bolton in England one of the roads is numbered according to the English convention the A666. When driving along there for the first time a few years ago I nearly crashed the car when I saw a street name - "St Peter's Way". I presume the council thought the name and the number would cancel one another out!!!
Posted by
David, Portland OR on April 28, 2008:
In high school I worked in fast-food. A customer once placed an order and the total came to $6.66. When she realized this, she added an apple pie to the order. Funny.
Posted by
Carolyn, NC on April 28, 2008:
Once we fueled an aircraft and gallons came to 666 gallons - he asked us to put just a tad bit more on the aircraft; he was taking no chances.
Posted by
CeeJay, OH on May 15, 2008:
I work for an insurance company, and part of my job is to pre-authorize services for the doctor offices. The computer assigns an 8-digit tracking number to each authorization and the numbers are issued sequentially.
A couple of months ago, I read the tracking number, 66600000, to the nurse and she read it back to me to make sure she had the right number of zeros. In the background, I could hear the patient telling her to get a new claim number because he did not want that number associated with his healthcare services.
I explained to him that the numbers are issued sequentially and that it would take about a month for us to authorize the 100,000 claims needed to change that number to 667. He canceled his appointment and told the nurse that he would reschedule for the next month.
I just finished the call from the same nurse, same patient, today the system assigned the number 66866601. The patient then informed me that he was canceling his policy with us and would pay for his exam himself.
What's in a Number? - Comments
Posted by Stephen, UK on April 26, 2008:
In Bolton in England one of the roads is numbered according to the English convention the A666. When driving along there for the first time a few years ago I nearly crashed the car when I saw a street name - "St Peter's Way". I presume the council thought the name and the number would cancel one another out!!!
Posted by David, Portland OR on April 28, 2008:
In high school I worked in fast-food. A customer once placed an order and the total came to $6.66. When she realized this, she added an apple pie to the order. Funny.
Posted by Carolyn, NC on April 28, 2008:
Once we fueled an aircraft and gallons came to 666 gallons - he asked us to put just a tad bit more on the aircraft; he was taking no chances.
Posted by CeeJay, OH on May 15, 2008:
I work for an insurance company, and part of my job is to pre-authorize services for the doctor offices. The computer assigns an 8-digit tracking number to each authorization and the numbers are issued sequentially.
A couple of months ago, I read the tracking number, 66600000, to the nurse and she read it back to me to make sure she had the right number of zeros. In the background, I could hear the patient telling her to get a new claim number because he did not want that number associated with his healthcare services.
I explained to him that the numbers are issued sequentially and that it would take about a month for us to authorize the 100,000 claims needed to change that number to 667. He canceled his appointment and told the nurse that he would reschedule for the next month.
I just finished the call from the same nurse, same patient, today the system assigned the number 66866601. The patient then informed me that he was canceling his policy with us and would pay for his exam himself.
Read the article that everyone's commenting on, or post a comment about it.