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16-07-2019, 07:34 PM
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Do you know your Mobile Number?

Hi

I have no idea at all what mine is.

Do you?

My Sim shows a new number, but I kept my old one.

I know my landline off by heart, but not my mobile.
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16-07-2019, 07:43 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Yes, I can remember my mobile number but I have to recite it in a certain format, in the way I have committed it to memory, with pauses between the three sets of digits.
I can’t just type it or write it without saying it out loud, either.

xxxx xxx xxxx

If I try to reel it off without the pauses, I usually get mixed up and put the digits in the wrong order.

Strange how our memory recall works.
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16-07-2019, 07:48 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Yes, I know my mobile number and the landline number. I also know my parents landline number from around 65 years' ago, No idea why I recall that one but I do. My mother's Co-op number is also ingrained into my memory, that was from around the same time. Another one I remember is the one I had to use for making access arrangements for my two offspring, that was about 40 years' ago.

The only thing that ever prevents me from remembering anything like that is when I am stressed, really badly stressed. Then I have to just relax for a while and they come flooding back.

On my mobile phone, an iPhone, the number is kept in my Contacts anyway plus it's easy to find under Settings. No idea about other makes of mobile as I've never had any others.

Our memories are very strange at times but then we are very complicated beings.

Edited to add:
I also remember the registration number of my third motorcycle in 1963 and my first car in 1967!
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16-07-2019, 07:52 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

No not at all, I do my mainline number after the very first day they installed it.
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16-07-2019, 07:54 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Yes I've had it for years, and it's also a very easy one.
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16-07-2019, 07:54 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Yep, had the same number for 20 years.
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16-07-2019, 07:56 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Presumably one has a mobile phone in the first place. I don't
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16-07-2019, 07:57 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Originally Posted by Baz46 ->
My mother's Co-op number is also ingrained into my memory
Me too!
I used to recite it over and over on my way to the Co-Op, so I wouldn’t forget it when I got to the shop.
My Mother used to send me for bits of shopping and to buy the “milk coupons” from when I was about 4 years old, and the number is ingrained in my memory. I doubt I could forget it if I tried!
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16-07-2019, 08:52 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

Yes, it’s 999...
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16-07-2019, 10:03 PM
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Re: Do you know your Mobile Number?

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Yes, it’s 999...
If that's your number do you reside in a Police, Fire or Ambulance station then?

Perhaps it's the attraction of the uniforms?
 
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