Does anyone remember phone numbers by heart anymore?

[DizzyDesii]

Lol i stopped memorizing numbers after high school. Shit i hardly know my own number since i change it every few years. I bet most dont know numbers since all they give/get is Snapchat/Kik anyways 😂 And im guilty of Discord. If i dont trust someone fully thats where we’ll start and the phone number comes later. Fck whatsapp cause you have to give your number anyways 🤣 The only numbers i know by heart is my Moms and one of my cousins. I always mix the last two digits of my grandma’s cell number up. But those 3 have had those phone numbers for like 10 years now. Im so used to clicking everyone elses name that I dont even know their area codes half the time.
#FeelFreeToList #ForgotTheDigits

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My mom and I used to know our exes numbers by heart when it got us discounts at Best Buy and Gamestop 🤣

[Mangospacho]

I remember my old home phone numbers and my parents’ home phone numbers because that’s the one I use to get a discount on Safeway groceries and gas stations.

[DizzyDesii]

Shit i’d remember it too if it got me discounts 🤣

[Mangospacho]

Yeah they got really mad when someone used their $0.30 per gallon discount so they called and added a PIN so no one else could use it. I don’t think I ever told them it was me. 🤔

[DizzyDesii]

😂😂

[strawhatEli]

When I want I can remember the numbers, give me yours and I will show you a demo 😂

[DizzyDesii]

Hahha smoooth

[Lliam]

I remember mine and my wife's. That's it. The rest are stored in my phone.

I do remember the phone # we had when I was growing up. My parent's had it forever.
Back then there weren't even area codes. Phone numbers had two letters like "To" (86) for Tory or "Ox" (69) for Oxford, followed by five numbers. So ours was Tory7-9777. Later, I remembered it as 867-9777.

I just looked up the reason for the letters and found this:
"Phone subscribers were given a unique five-digit number within their service area. These would be preceded by two digits—which were identified by letters—that denoted the telephone exchange you were connected to." You had to first dial a 3 digit area code to reach "long distance".

And I found the following video interesting:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61116/why-did-old-phone-numbers-start-letters

For geeks who enjoy the history of technology (in this case, the telephone system), this is an interesting article that includes a short video:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/our-numbered-days-the-evolution-of-the-area-code/283803/

[DizzyDesii]

Did y'all have the rotary phone

[Lliam]

Of course. Cell phones didn't even come out to the general public until the mid 80s. And those were flip phones. The first cell phone I ever had was issued to me in the late 80s by the company I worked for when I was close to 35 years old.
Even cordless home phones didn't come out until the 80s.
You already know my age, so it's no secret that I was born in 1954.

When I was real little, our phone was on a "party line". You probably never heard of those. It's when people in your neighborhood had their own phone numbers but were on the same line. So you might pick up the phone to make a call and hear someone else on the phone having a conversation. You would have to wait until they got off the phone before you could make a call. It was weird.

"A party line was a local telephone loop circuit that was shared by more than one subscriber. There was no privacy on a party line; if you were conversing with a friend, anyone on your party line could pick up their telephone and listen in."

[NamerOfStars]

Yes. Why? Well, I can't tell you the number of times I've had to text a cousin, only to get back a "who's this?" in response; I don't know why it's so difficult to spare a couple of kilobytes on a phone with a multi-gig hard drive [NOTE TO INACCURATE PEDANTS: a solid state hard drive is still a hard drive, in much the same way that a red shoe is still a shoe, and a dwarf planet is still a planet; subcategories are part of categories. Also, pedantry's sole virtue is that it's accurate; you remove that at your own peril.]. Of course, that's not the real issue; the issue is that they don't back up and then copy their contact lists. They let a computer do their remembering for them, and then can't bother to keep that computer up to date.

Plus, a month or so ago a friend of mine just seemed to up and disappear. I figured he was just busy and not answering his phone, but I grew concerned as time passed and I never heard back. He had no local family, being a recent arrival in the area, like me, so I asked around, and no one else had heard from him, either. It turned out he'd collapsed from an unknown medical problem and been rushed to the hospital. They fixed it, and he was doing okay, but they held him there for quite a while, and since he didn't have his phone with him when he went down, he couldn't call anybody. They would've let him the phone at the hospital, of course, but he didn't know anyone's numbers. It all worked out okay, but it was NOT a happy situation for anyone involved.

[DizzyDesii]

“Whos this” is petty af but i do it too 🤣

[NamerOfStars]

Well, I think in my case it's genuinely a matter of not knowing; I don't call so often that they'd think to make adding my number a priority. But I hadn't thought it might be otherwise. Hmm...

[Apulu_3]

I just remember my Mom's and Dad's number because as a student I need it everytime I apply for a competition or something like that. Also it will be embarrassing if I didn't remembered their number hehe. It is necessary too so when I get kidnapped/lost/or some random shit then I will have their number. I don't remember my own number though. I tried memorizing it but I couldn't ;-; so when someone asks my number then I need to see it and say and the person will me looking at me like I did some sort of crime lol. I seriously need to remember it.

[DizzyDesii]

Lmao

[ohshee]

I do my aunt and uncle's phone number and I know my phone number my aunt and uncle's phone number because I grew up with it all my life and my phone number because I have to say it everyday but my closest friends I don't even remember their phone number I don't know my brother's phone number my sister's phone number I know my home phone number and my cell phone number that's it and my aunt and uncle's phone number nobody else's that sucks I used to know everybody's phone number I mean 30 40 50 numbers you asked me I could tell you the phone number today only three

[DizzyDesii]

Why do you state your number daily

[ohshee]

What numbet

[ohshee]

Number

[Citizenkirk]

I just got a new phone, and I don't know my own phone number. I would be surprised if most people have the same number long enough to memorize, given all the wrong number calls, collection notifications, and telemarketing calls and scams out there. I still get collection notifications from people trying to get me to pay up on insurance I don't have on a car I don't own, and student loans I don't owe.
My name is not Jennifer Flores, it's Citizenkirk. I'm not paying her student loan off, or solar panels for a house I don't own. I inherited these obligations with my last phone number, apparently 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[DizzyDesii]

Im sooo tired of the telemarketer calls

[Citizenkirk]

Join the club, sister.

[matchrestore]

I know my wife's phone number, the number of one pizza place, and the number for my workplace (as I have to give it out over the phone quite a bit). The pizza place uses their phone number as their web address as well and everyone around here knows that number.

[DizzyDesii]

So many people know the pizza place if nothing else 🤣

[NathanDavis]

I remember my elementary crush's phone number by heart... lmao, I still use it as part of some passwords... lol

and because of work and phone land lines, I remember a lot of phone numbers that I use often

also remember everyone's phone number in my family and some relatives

[DizzyDesii]

Wowz

[NathanDavis]

I like to dial manually... lol

it's a good mental exercise

[MAC1983]

I don't know exactly why, but I know a lot of numbers by heart. Let's see...

Both my parents
My two brothers
My sister on a good day (she changed numbers a lot but she's in my family plan)
My eldest nephew
2 or 3 of my closest friends
One of my ex-girlfriends - the other one is in a different country and I never memorized that one

Unfortunately, this does not equate with knowing all their birthdays by heart... 🙄

[DizzyDesii]

I only know my bday lmao, my mom, my sis and my grandpas

[MAC1983]

Bare necessities, @DizzyDesii.
Just the bare necessities. 🐻

[Hunnybee1]

Woah thats impressive I've only memorized mine and my parents and i don't think i can take more than 3 numbers lol

[MAC1983]

As long as you remember 3 you have a great chance of phoning someone from a phonebooth (if they still exist in your country) or shop or something, in case of emergency. 👍

[DizzyDesii]

I think i used a phone booth once in life if even that

[MAC1983]

Well I used them sometimes in the last decade whenever the phone battery died or it was an emergency.

This decade haven't used them once. 🤷‍♂️

[Miristheiss]

I can't even remember my wife's because it is in my phone and I never dial the numbers.
I can still remember the phone number to the house I grew up in... my best friend's from middle school and high school and a few commercial jingles. One for a pizza place and one for a technical/computer college. They both had commercials on all the time when I was young and they had the telephone number in the jingle.

[DizzyDesii]

Damn you gotta learn the wifeys

[DonkeyDan]

Before mobile (cell) phones I always remembered phone numbers, all of them and I'm talking a lot, it was like some Rain Man shit.
Then mobile phones came along but the first few only had memory for 8 to 10 numbers, once they got up to more than 100 I never needed to remember them to dial, and just never used that skill anymore and I can't remember anyone's number anymore.

[DizzyDesii]

Haha

[Кураж]

Lol, I was just watching a tv show and there was a scene where they used another person's phone to call someone in an emergency.
I went like "oh come one, who the fuck remembers anyone's number?".

I only remember mine, and that's because I use it to order crap online all the time.

[DizzyDesii]

Omg that sounds so familiar 🤣 what show

[Кураж]

I think it was a random scene in Lucifer.
I've initially given up on it when it got cancelled but I recently found out Netflix produced more seasons so I got back into it.

[AviatorTom]

I remember my own phone number and my SO's phone number. The phone number is often needed on online forms, aa well as giving us discounts at stores during checkout.

For most other phone numbers, I just use my Contacts list in my smart phone, organized by the person's name.

[DizzyDesii]

Oh yea i forgot about filling out forms

[Twalli]

I know the cell numbers of my mom, dad, and sister. My mom because I had to call her on it without having a cell phone, dad because it begins with a flip of our area code and ends with our house number, sister because it's 3 different numbers. Like 555-5531 (that's not her number but the arrangement of the the numbers is the same). Other than that I haven't memorized anyone's number

[DizzyDesii]

Damn the sis got an easy number lmao

[Twalli]

Yeah. It's weird because even though we don't have 7 different numerals in our numbers, it's not that easy to remember it.

[Twalli]

My mom has three 2s in her number, my dad has two 6s and three 3s, and I have two 7s.

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i have a bunch of 6

[Twalli]

As long as no part of it is 666, I think you're good

[Jaximus-Lion]

I know the Mrs, my mom's and my brother's. Plus i know the whole family's social numbers (which is their birth dates plus 4 random numbers after the date numbers). It is good to know/remember IF anything happens where i can't be able to use my phone.

[DizzyDesii]

Damn i have a hard enough time with my own ssn 🤣

[Hunnybee1]

I do! It is very important for me memorize at least three numbers in case I'm in a tight spot ya know like having to call someone if your phone died or whatever

[DizzyDesii]

Very true

[JustinTheGreat]

I know my moms number by heart a couple of my siblings because they have all had the same number for years and I remember it from when I was a kid.
I definitely should try to memorize other peoples numbers in case of an emergency or something

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i should try too

[RedStiletto88]

I know my bfs number, 1 of my sisters (the other changes her number often so I gave up), and parents numbers, and 1 of my best friends but the rest honestly no I don’t remember those.

[DizzyDesii]

Cause theyre not that important 🤣

[RedStiletto88]

Well haha not as important as those very close to me! 😆

[20yearsolder]

I still remember some by heart, I can remember the phone number as I was growing up. 217-268-3852. You guys can call it if you want, I don't know whose number it is anymore

[DizzyDesii]

😂😂

[Shark_61695]

I know mine and my mum's but they haven't changed since forever... my mum has had hers for over 20 years.

I don't tend to bother these days, I haven't even memorized my debit card number for years... I don't see the point anymore.

[DizzyDesii]

I haven't memorized my card even once lmao

[Twalli]

I memorized 3 digit security code in my old debit card because it was 005, I don't know the newer one. The card number is the same, but I still need to look at it every time.

[Cherry234]

I don't know any numbers by heart except for my cell number, my home number, and my dad's cell number.

[DizzyDesii]

Thas about all u need