How many phone numbers do you have memorized?

Only my own.

Ha! With my memory, if I was in jail, I’d probably end up trying to call Jenny at 867–5309. Points to everyone who now has the earworm.

Really, though, my own and maybe my daughter’s. Ugh.

ETA, why are all the Related Qs about puppies???

140202, 140326, 120540, 569210, my parents’, my brother’s (both my parents and my brother have the same number from when they got their connection).
These were/are landlines.
The first two were from youth friends, third hairdresser, fourth my employer from the day in ‘87.
Now with mobile numbers I only know my own.
New ones, from family or friends don’t stick anymore.
Ah, and the phone number of my girlfriend and I, from the nineties.
That one I use, partially, as a current password.

@canidmajor I was copying @rebbel. He always adds kittens to his topics and I felt he was leaving out puppies, so I add puppies!

I probably have about 5–10 in my head but they are fading fast….......Used to have many more.

Dozens, but I have a great memory for numbers. Not so good for faces, however.

Not many now. Maybe 4–6 and probably two of those are disconnected now. Smart Phones have made us unnecessary to memorize them.

I used to know a couple dozen prior to smart phones.

I know about a half dozen. I have been with my girlfriend for over seven years and don’t know hers, not even the strange area code it has. But I can unlock her phone!

48.

@canidmajor You van also call 243–6248 for dirty deals done dirt cheap.

Personal..1 which is my son’s phone number.

Transport in very cold weather: Taxi cab in order to pick up groceries etc

All others on my cellphone and copies into my address book incase cellphone service goes out or loss of cellphone or damaged etc

Insurance Company : Tenant Insurance ( policy number also) kept in address book in case of Fire Emergency in our Building ( happened Feb 15 2022).

Life Insurance policy numbers: in address book plus emailed that infromation to myself on Google inbox files as they keep that info forever.

My long time pen Pal friend in another country : Her phone number, address, email all in my address book plus in my Google files folder.
All email addresses of importance backed up in addressbook and Google files.

I have never put a phone number in a phone’s memory…landline or mobile. Never. I dial the number every time I place a call. I have a ton of numbers in my memory. I did not adopt a mobile phone to be my constant companion and part of my life. I have one that stays turned off in my brief case or bag; it is my replacement for public coin phones. That’s it. Our species is really a disappointment overall.

Hard to say. I can recall the home phone number of my best friend in elementary school, but sometimes I forget my wife’s number… The joys of modern tech.

Sadly, I have many days that I have to look up my own number mainly because I never have to call it

Think about it, we also no longer have hard print phone books with which we can look up a phone number. Guess I’m screwed

@SEKA You can buy one at Wal-Mart for a few bucks and write names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. yourself in it. They still do exist, we have one.

4. Mine, Rick’s, my old boyfriend’s (Jerry) and the one I grew up with. I keep bugging my kids to port my childhood number when they change numbers.

After I wrote the ansers above, I got to thinking how far back I could remember phone numbers. Here’s what I cam up with:

paternal grandparents # (they died around 1980–85)
maternal grandparents # (the died in the 1990–1991)

Our phone when I was a kid
the 2nd line my parents got for us kids when were teens (around 1970)
my dad’s work phone # (he retired from there in 1990)

My aunt’s # from when she lived in Kansas
my various work numbers from my jobs over the years
my original cell #
my current cell #
Home phone numbers I have had since adulthood (I remember them all)
ex-wife’s phone # and cell #
kids’ phone #s

I could go one, but these are numbers I can recite without even trying.

1. My landline phone
2. My cell phone
3. My wife’s landline
4. Her cell phone
5. My niece’s cell phone
6. My cable TV provider (Spectrum): 888–892-2253. It’s easy to enter on a touch tone keypad: I just press four 8’s, a 9, three 2’s, and a 53.
7. Barnes law firm: 800–800-0000. I wondered if they really had such a memorizable number so I called them- they do. Part of their jingle is “One 8 hundred, 8 million”.
8. The phone number we had when we moved into our first house: STate 5–5013. That was in 1956, when we still had “alphanumeric” identifiers. I think back then we only had 7-digit dialing, so we had to dial 0 for an 0perator, if we wanted to call someone in a different NPA (which later became known as an area code).
9. 911 :p
10. 311, for routing to our various city services.
11. Yours! JK ;p

BR-549 and Sarah in Mayberry, who you get to answer by clicking the phone-hanger-up thingie.

Just two. My moms, My dads and 911. That’s it.

Oh I forgot—there are a few lawyers. One is my area code plus all 9’s, another is my area code plus all 2’s. I think that there’s another my area code plus all 3’s. One is if you’ve been in an accident. The other 2 I don’t remember their specialty.

Other than my own. My dad’s and my sister’s. Everyone else I pretty much have to go to the contacts in my phone. I don’t call that many, otherwise.

I have all the important ones memorized. That would be family, friends, work, etc. Around 20–30 in total. More than likely more. I remember the ones of friends from when I was a kid as well as every one I have had over the years.
I manually dial the numbers all the time so I have options when I have on Orange Prison pants and an urgent call to make.

^I see you appreciate the importance of prison phone calls!

@chyna Dang Right. There are no pockets in those orange pants either