agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 26, 2020 16:56:14 GMT -5
Is this such a lost method these days? We are living in an age where it's more common to save somebody's phone number to contacts list that in order to call someone, you rely on checking your list and then just hitting the call button.
But then there are moments when somebody gets caught in a jam and say if your phone dies or you lose it and you need to make a call. You realize that you don't exactly know the number of the person you need to call. Or at least you don't have it ingrained in your memory. It was brought to light in a past thread about how the current generation seems to not know how things used to work in the past.
I have told some people that it would be wise to memorize someone's phone number in case something were to happen.
Do you ever memorize phone numbers?
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jan 26, 2020 16:58:13 GMT -5
I think I know my own phone number, my mom's cellphone, and my parents' long time home number. That's about it. If I'm not putting down on any forms, I'm not memorizing it.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 26, 2020 18:26:42 GMT -5
I don't even know my own number.
My phone remembers things for me.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 26, 2020 19:15:26 GMT -5
I can tell you my number, my wifes number, and a few people at the offices numbers (all the same 3 digits plus their extension) but thats it.
But I can still remember several of my friends numbers from high school.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Jan 26, 2020 19:16:28 GMT -5
I know my number, my boyfriend's mobile number, my dad's mobile number, and the house landline. Those are the only people I'd need to contact in an emergency, other than Triple A, and I carry my membership card with me.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2020 19:33:57 GMT -5
I can tell you my number, my wifes number, and a few people at the offices numbers (all the same 3 digits plus their extension) but thats it. But I can still remember several of my friends numbers from high school. That;s me. Phone Numbers that work I can remember are mine,my parents home phone,my lady's cell and that is it. But I still got 4 friends from jr and high school numbers memorized.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 26, 2020 20:00:27 GMT -5
It's good to see that some people here memorize SOME numbers. I have seen it where my sister had told me that she doesn't know my number by heart, or even my parents asking me if a certain phone number is correct.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 26, 2020 23:49:27 GMT -5
I remember the last three numbers I had and that's about it. I've saved the numbers of anyone I pick up the phone for.
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Post by Kyn on Jan 27, 2020 1:25:09 GMT -5
I have two phone numbers memorized:
1. My former boss, who I haven't worked for since 2017. I guess I memorized it because I had to ring it every day from a landline.
2. My grandpa, because my grandparents have had the same landline my entire life, so I've had it memorized since I was a child.
I doubt many people memorize numbers these days, because without repetitively needing to remember / type it, it's hard to do. And why would you, when your mobile stores the numbers for you anyway? (And then your phone dies, and you realise why you should have memorized a number or two...)
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 27, 2020 4:15:56 GMT -5
I memorize a few still, but really, even before cellphones became widespread, people kept rolodexes, black books, even just scraps of paper, etc. It's too much of a pain in the ass to memorize a lot of phone numbers.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 27, 2020 6:39:24 GMT -5
I remember my own number because I've had the same number since 2007.
I couldn't even tell you my work number, much less anybody else's.
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Post by wankah on Jan 27, 2020 7:52:04 GMT -5
I only remember my own number and for some weird reason I also remember the remember the contact number of Leyton Orient's office.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Jan 27, 2020 7:56:14 GMT -5
I remember pi by thinking of it as a phone number, so 0161 314 1592 (just drop the area code cos your at home and you don't need that)
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Post by sabretooth on Jan 27, 2020 11:31:17 GMT -5
877-CASH-NOW
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Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Jan 27, 2020 12:18:48 GMT -5
I had to do a first aid at work for a kid who bust his head open on the slide playing with his friends. Eye brow. Tons of blood. Flair would have been jealous. Anyway, in filling out the paperwork I gotta do, I asked for his parents number. The mother of his friend says “Kids don’t know anymore. They just press “mom” on the phone”.
It’s true enough. I know my dads house phone, my own and my work number. That’s it.
Just one less thing to be worried about I guess.
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Post by agent817 on Jan 27, 2020 12:23:20 GMT -5
I had to do a first aid at work for a kid who bust his head open on the slide playing with his friends. Eye brow. Tons of blood. Flair would have been jealous. Anyway, in filling out the paperwork I gotta do, I asked for his parents number. The mother of his friend says “Kids don’t know anymore. They just press “mom” on the phone”. It’s true enough. I know my dads house phone, my own and my work number. That’s it. Just one less thing to be worried about I guess. I think it was your post from another thread that I was referencing in the OP. It brought to light that some people just don't know anymore. But like I also noted, it's good that some people memorize a few numbers in case they got in a jam.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Jan 27, 2020 12:26:35 GMT -5
I had to do a first aid at work for a kid who bust his head open on the slide playing with his friends. Eye brow. Tons of blood. Flair would have been jealous. Anyway, in filling out the paperwork I gotta do, I asked for his parents number. The mother of his friend says “Kids don’t know anymore. They just press “mom” on the phone”. It’s true enough. I know my dads house phone, my own and my work number. That’s it. Just one less thing to be worried about I guess. I think it was your post from another thread that I was referencing in the OP. It brought to light that some people just don't know anymore. But like I also noted, it's good that some people memorize a few numbers in case they got in a jam. The younger generation really doesn’t know how things used to work. We have a VHS tape in a clamshell case sitting on the lunch room at work. A 21 year old girl guessed it was a book. Meaning she neither knows what a VHS is or more sadly, a book.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 12:53:31 GMT -5
I actually lost the ability to remember phone numbers when I changed my own number around 6 years ago. That one (which I'd had since I got a cellphone) was basically 3 different numbers in a particular order. It was common to get it wrong, but I memorized it immediately and never forgot it.
But ever since I switched carriers/got a smartphone, I've barely been able to remember that new number since. The ease was removed, and with that any ability to remember other numbers is gone; once it goes in the contact list I just cannot bother to remember it much less look at it.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jan 27, 2020 23:01:59 GMT -5
I know my wife’s number, my sister’s and my parents’.
That’s literally it.
I don’t even know what my office number is. Any time I have to give it out, I go look at my email signature.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 28, 2020 1:26:02 GMT -5
I have my own cell number, my mother's house number, my grandmother's number, and my brother's cell memorized but that's pretty much it.
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