sf wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:06:31 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> But if you never
>> actually dial their number, you don't remember what it is.
>
> So true! I don't know anyone's telephone numbers anymore. The only
> one I know is the home phone of someone I've know since the dark ages
> and has lived in the same place for 35 years with the same phone
> number. I tried to port our long time phone number over to my cell,
> but we'd had the number for so long, being batted back and forth
> between telephone companies - they lost track of who owned my number.
> I don't think they've figured it out even after 5+ years because I
> always get the "disconnected" message whenever I'm curious enough to
> call it.
>
I remember some of my friends' numbers from my youth. And I have
my parents number, which they got in the mid-1940s. In part, I
like having it, but some of my childhood friends also remember MY
number (without the preamble, of course).