Comments on: 1-24-07

By: Becky..Absent Minded Housewife

Becky..Absent Minded Housewife — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:35:21 +0000

I don’t use my cell phone enough to even remember my own cell phone number.

By: Kathie

Kathie — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:04:30 +0000

Jaye, that’s great–having numbers in your head you don’t know to whom they belong. LIke random keys in the junk drawer.

Cindy, I do that too, look up a number (if it’s local) or use 411 and then unearth a number ten minutes later. This is all an organizational issue for me. I have to memorize or waste time searching. We’ll see how long this lasts. IN another ten years I might have to pin my phone number list to my shirt…

By: Cynthia Closkey

Cynthia Closkey — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:57:04 +0000

I have a bunch of phone numbers in my cellphone and I rely on the lookup to find them — especially if I’m driving, since the handy hands-free is voice-controlled. So fun to say someone’s name and have the phone do all the work.

But there are a few numbers I still dial into my cellphone, like my sister’s home number. I remember it through a mneumonic (“there are two twos, not five fives”). And I type in my parents’ phone number, because doing that is quicker than looking up the number in the contacts.

Sometimes I’ll dial a number into the cellphone and a name will pop up — because I’d saved the number but forgotten it was there. Like Monday, I went to the trouble of digging out a phone book (remember those?) and looking up Vocelli’s Pizza, only to learn the number had been in my cellphone all along.

By: Jaye Wells

Jaye Wells — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:13:27 +0000

I was just talking with someone the other day about how I don’t know anyone’s phone numbers anymore. But then there are random phone numbers in my head and I have no idea to whom they belong.