@dancinyogi, an interesting point perhaps, in some countries people usually call friends and family via an app instead of directly via phone. Here in Japan I've only ever seen my wife call her parents via LINE, the de facto communications app.
In fact, come to think of it, I have friends' LINE accounts but I don't have their phone numbers. Peeps exchange said accounts instead.
Note, phone calls are still used but more for calling businesses and such.
@dancinyogi It's the only phone number besides my own that I know without looking it up.
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Well, there's the number from a place I worked at 30 years ago. Brains are weird.
@dancinyogi I still remember her number from the apartment where she lived when we started dating. I've got a good memory for numbers; not so much for people's names.
@dancinyogi as well as my own, which means I sometimes come up with a blank. These are numbers from 2010. The land line, which I got rid of in 2013, I remember from using for a loyalty card and even can remember the landline from the move before that.
Importantly, I can remember her social security number BD & our anniversary date 54 years ago. Also, because my online banking got compromised last week and I had to change checking account and update all my debit & deposit accounts, I now know my routing & checking #’s
@dancinyogi a better question is, "Do you know YOUR cell phone number without looking it up?" I bet there's a lot of people who don't...I can guarantee it. (from personal experience.)
@dancinyogi I know the first two digits and the last six digits so I recognise it and push comes to shove I could expect to get through after 500 attempts. ;-)
@dancinyogi I can at least recognize it when I see it, but I always look it up, when she asks me (because she doesn't know it either and wouldn't even recognize it, I think).
@dancinyogi I sudden decided that NOT knowing it was a risk factor, one day, and made up a song with which to remember it. Then sang it at my kids for twenty minutes solid, whilst driving to Widnes.
They hated me for it, but we all know Dad's number, now.
@dancinyogi strangely I remember my childhood home phone number and my grandparents number, they've been dead for years. Since I usually send messages to my wife and seldom call her number I don't have it in memory.
@dancinyogi I gave the dude his phone. it used to be mine. I remember the number. He trashed the phone after we split. I wonder who has that number, now? Should I call it someday? LOL!
@dancinyogi I asked my husband if he knew it, and he said "yes of course! I use it when shopping because you're more responsible and have a rewards account set up everywhere" 😂
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