Fog

Do you ever have those moments when your in the queue for the hole in the wall and you get there and go blank and can't remember the numberor am I just dippy!

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Yes, I often can remember the longer bank account number better than the PIN. If I can't remember things I have to walk away, clear my mind and then come back to it later, best NOT to even think about the number - and it just seems to be there after all

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Jean I don't use 'the hole in the wall' but on paying in shops with my card my mind has gone blank a few times or I could only remember my online banking number I felt such a fool . It happened in Waitrose only last week, luckily I have my number disguised inside a list of phone numbers and hidden in my bag.

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Always Jean, when I am paying in a shop by card with everyone looking at me. Now, ask me for my RAF eight digit number from back in the 60s and I'll reel it off.

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I actually put my card in the device at the supermarket checkout once, entered the first number....then my mind went blank I apologised and tried a couple more times with the queue looking on ..... no, I still couldn't recall it so I paid with cash in the end.

I bet the queue thought what a dippy woman I was!

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I once went to the ATM and for the life of me I could not remember the PIN number I'd had for years.

I've never remembered it so I had to ask the Bank to give me a new PIN number. I did feel daft.

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You would'nt think it difficult to remember 4 digits, but for some reason you sometimes panic when a mist comes over you. My trick is associate the numbers with relevant dates, ie. birthdays, anniversaries or maybe a date from history.

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You think that's bad, when it came the time to pay for some new furniture this afternoon I gave the assistant my library card.....

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Oh Barry, you didn't did you?

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Yep, sure did. Even funnier was that he didn't even look at it and actually put it in the machine before we found out...