Can you remember old phone numbers?!

[Comedycook]

Just thinking to myself about this.

I can remember the following numbers

My grandma's home phone number..she died 15 years ago

My father's office phone number....he retired in the 1990s!

My best friends home phone number...I think I last called that number in the 1990s

My ex boyfriends mobile number...we split up in 2003!

Isn't it funny how the mind keeps these things in our head. Do you remember old phone numbers you haven't used for decades?!

Yep and car regs and use them regularly for passwords

Yep. My grandparents' number; they died more than 35 years ago! I can remember things from long ago but I'm definitely noticing my short term memory isn't what it used to be.

Childhood number from the early 90s. We had it for years and years! 604641!

i remember my childhood home’s landline, and my best friends landline from the 1990s.
nowadays I know mine and my bosses- no idea of my husbands. I did think when pregnant if I went into unexpected labour and didn’t have a phone I’d only be able to recite “call my boss”

Yes - schoolfriends I haven't seen for 40 years, long dead relatives, exes, numbers I had in previous houses. In landline rotary dial days, they became indelibly imprinted on my brain.

Yes, from the sixties I remember my grandparents numbers also aunts and the doctors and also the number of the brewery who we called for the beer order on Wednesdays.

I also remember the number of the lad selling newspapers on Paddington Station in 1978, he was called Bill and we met whilst I was on a school trip waiting for the train home, he tore off the top of one of his papers wrote his number and passed it through the window as the train was pulling out.
We called each other for a while but the distance was too much.
Short but sweet a lovely memory.

Yes, old phone numbers and car registrations are handy for using in passwords.

Yes I can
Child household, work, adult home
Ex mil
3 DS's mobile number now
Plus registration numbers of parents, friends and current family
I think I have a photographic memory.. oh postcodes too

'811663 Corsham building plastics' 😆

Yes. I remember my old phone number, my best friends phone number and my mums work place number. I also remember some local phone numbers of businesses that used to advertise on the radio whenI was a child. The power of a catchy jingle!

My best friend is still the same, I haven't a clue what her number is now. I don't know my DP's number. I know 2 of my 5 children's numbers, through having to put them on forms regularly.

Yep. I can't remember useful things for my current life but I can remember these phone numbers from the 80s/early 90s

Grandparents
Doctor
Four different friends who lived locally (used to call them to ask if they wanted to come out to play in the village)
My mum's two best friends
My parents' fax number

As well as one already mentioned upthread: 018118181

I can also remember the birthdays of the kids I was at school with when I was 8. They really stick in my mind to the extent that every year on the 15th of March I'll think '15th March, Paul Wright's birthday’ even though he wasn’t a best friend of mine and I don’t think I ever went to one of his parties and I haven’t seen him since we were 13 etc.

I do like how many of us remember the live and kicking phone number 😂

My dad can tell you every car reg he's ever had, and the mileage
He went to collect my prescription and couldn't remember my date of birth. I'm an only child

I remember my phone number from the sixties in London when the prefix was letters, not numbers. Ours was Clocktower. You dialled the first 3 letters then the number. It changed later on to 552. Also can remember all my car number plates and other people's.

My mum's old land-line number
An ex from over 20 years ago

Oh yes, quite a lot

Jolly useful for a numeric bit in a password - because I doubt anyone who knows me now knows the name of my sixth form boyfriend, lt alone his mum's telephone number

01622 750925

Yes, can remember home numbers from the 60s and 70s. When I met DP the last 4 digits of his mobile number were the same ( same order) last 4 digits of the landline when I was a small child. I think landlines numbers were remembered because everyone said them as the greeting an answering as a pp said. My earliest 2 numbers had an name name in front of the number.

I've never forgotten the Swap Shop number

Anyone know what this used to be?

0800 28 29 30

Oh it still works!!!

I can remember our phone number from the 1960s. Easy as it’s only four digits.

hello, 655 2234.....what was that all about ?

Confirmation. It was a lot easier to dial the wrong number with the old rotary dial phones with no means of storing numbers.

Yep, childhood phone numbers,plus the shops used to work in. And all car registration numbers from 1977 onwards.

I can remember my childhood phone number. Can also remember the reg number on a car I bought when I was 21 and sold 5 years later - I'm nearly 59 now.
I recently surprised a cousin whom I met at a funeral by remembering her childhood address even though she had lived 50 miles away from me and I probably only went there twice in my childhood. They moved to another country.

I cannot remember what I went upstairs/to the fridge for or where I put my car in the car park most of the time though!