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?!

@lyson oh put me out of my misery for that number please....
I'm thinking a radio station? A catchy jingle?

Sex line

I remember lots of childhood numbers.
I even remember the number of the local pizza place.

I do not know my child’s phone number.

My aunt's 3922

@lyson oh 😳
My brain was thinking more along the lines of a radio advert for Autocar or something....

It is interesting by how much phone numbers have increased in length, over the decades. My parents moved into their in the late Forties and stayed there for the rest of their lives. My mother was then a midwife so we had a phone. This was before the days of STD and our number was Blean 53. By the time my mother died, about fifteen years ago it 01227 361953

Yep, I've got a "numbers brain" and can remember old phone numbers, account numbers, birthdays of everyone I was at school with etc, without trying. I've learned not to always let on though, as many people find it odd and don't believe it's effortless..ie assume I'm some kind of stalker, or that I spend my evenings swotting up...

The number my parents had before std came in in about 1970.

I remember my childhood and teen phone numbers, but precious little after that! Those were from 50-60 yrs ago!

I also remember many old schoolfriends' birthdays, @ItsNotReallyChaos . I often find myself wondering how they are celebrating, particularly if it's a big birthday. It's useful for getting other dates to stick in my head: 'Vet appointment 26 Feb - oh, that's the day before Sarah's birthday.'

Loads of Aunts and Uncles land line numbers, numbers for work, numbers from work, first mobile number.

I have no idea what my current mobile number is - I never ring it! 🤦‍♀️

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717396 auntie
899130 best friend
896412 me
I remember anything that's bloody useless
Put me in an important exam and I couldn't remember anything 😒

Yes, I remember all the landline numbers that I used to dial, but other than DH’s mobile number, that he has had for 25 years or so, the rest are in my phone so no need to remember.

No, the minute I have a new phone the old number is gone.

I'm like Homer Simpson. New information shoves old information out of my memory bank.

I remember my home phone number from when I was a kid, my first boyfriend's phone number from 1976 and my best friend's number from 1973.

Yes. My childhood phone number is my login for my mobile. Also, DH was amazed when I remembered his home phone number from when we were first together 26 years ago 😆

I can remember my best friend's one, but that's it.

*Sorry, should clarify this would have been my best friend from primary. Still in touch but I wonder who if the number still exists for someone!

Yes, I can !! Only two though

All my school friends numbers from the 80’s

I can remember old car registrations too

Yes. Still remember my first real boyfriend's number which was last dialled around 1982.

I left my job in a bank in 1985, and I can still remember the bank account numbers of some of the business customers.

Me too, I have a great memory for phone numbers from several decades ago.
Car number plates and dates too: birthdays, anniversaries of things eg. it was 30 years ago today that I did XXX.

(The autistic hypothesis is interesting; I'm not diagnosed but do have it in the family and definitely have some traits).

Whatever it is and wherever it's from, it's quite useful for creating passwords I won't forget!