How Many Phone Numbers Do You Commit To Memory?

[naomi24]

Before mobile phones were widely used I remembered loads of familyand friend's phone numbers but now I know absolutely none.  I don't even know my own number.  We've given up our landline and I rely solely on my phone's address book to contact people - never looking at the number I'm calling.  If ever disaster struck and grief came to my phone, I wouldn't be able to contact anyone.  A sobering thought.  I think I'll write a few numbers down - just to be on the safe side.

[Peter Pedant]

it is what a directory is for innit?

[naomi24]

No phone, no google, no directory.

[barry1010]

I know my own number and my landline number, that's about it.

I have a list of essential contacts in my wallet and in my car's glovebox, just in case.  I keep a full list of phone numbers in my Google Drive account which can be accessed from any pc.  Like you I would be stranded if I had to remember a phone number

[Hazlinny]

I remember my own and one other. I'm better at remembering passwords!

 

[bednobs]

at work we are encouraged to write personal resilience plans, which means i at least have some written down on paper.

i know myparents landline number and mine and mu husband'smobile numbers, but that's it.  I cantquite remember my landline number (it's annoying cause it's only 5 numbers!)

[miser]

Store your contacts on your sim card if they are stored to phone.

[Omg21]

I'm like you Naomi. I don't know my own number.  Like Barry, I now keep a list of essential numbers after my phone died and I needed to make an urgent call.  My friend offered to make the call but I didn't know the number.  We did manage to make contact by a very circuitous route but it taught me a lesson not to rely on my contact list.

[Old_Geezer]

None. Well except things like 999.

[bednobs]

i remember how useful it used to be to remember your gps number (and have 2p for the phone box)!

[barry1010]

naomi, if you've got an Android phone it should sync to your Google account, contacts and all

[ToraToraTora]

The only one I know is my own. I have a few key ones written down in my wallet just in case. That's it!

[barry1010]

I came across a woman whose car had broken down a couple of years ago, a baby in the car seat.  She didn't have her phone with her and couldn't remember the phone number of her breakdown company.  She couldn't remember the name of the breakdown company because she changes every year, to save money.  She couldn't remember any phone number.

In the end we had to google her husband's employer to get the information.  She was in a real panic.

[Peter Pedant]

tortured analogy / follow on story just to tease Barry..... Turning off to Melbury ( Kings Hintock in Hardy'swoodlanders(, leddy and child in broken down car

SHE Knew the breakdown number - and we rang it. All I cd say was - it is a turning off the Yeovil - Maiden Newton rd ( no I did not add Ivell and Chalk Newton) - take the road south out of Yeovil

and the fella said..... I am in Delhi

I cant remember what we did: big discussion about whether leddy and child should get into car with two strangers. 

Your own number should be stored in the phone under ICE - 2005 lots of people wandering around with phonesthey had forgotten how to use

AND my brudda writes his number on the back of the phone. A lorra people go "oo!"

Post no 2 - no phone, then there is little point in memorising numbers isnt there

[naomi24]

//no phone, then there is little point in memorising numbers isnt there//

 

You're really not thinking this through at all.

[barry1010]

"Post no 2 - no phone, then there is little point in memorising numbers isnt there"

Most people would call a number on your behalf in an emergency if you lost yours

[nailedit]

I can't remember any phone numbers anymore exept my mums, and since she died a few years ago its of no use. I keep a written list of numbers as a back up which has twice come in handy.

[Prudie]

I'm quite good at remembering numbers. I only know the 3 mobiles that I need to off by heart (mine, my husband's and my daughter's) but I could probably write down straight off at least 12 landline numbers including the dialling code I use, both in personal or work life.

[New Judge]

AAll of the numbers I use regularly (probably about a dozen) I know from memory. 

The rest are in my phone, on an Excel Spreadsheet (which is backed up in two places and of which I have a printed copy) and most of them are in a paper address book.

[sandyRoe]

I know my own number and have an ICE number taped to the back of my phone.

I don't know any others.