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We recently had to get a new home phone.  The last one’s battery died and it’s about the same price to get a new phone as it is to get a new battery.  Ugh…  Anyway… New phone.  It stuck me how much I’ve become dependent on my phone remembering phone numbers for me.  I have a hard time remembering my number let alone the numbers of others.  I could at one time remember a handful of numbers.  Wife was better and could remember just about everyone’s number.  If there was an emergency and I had to recall by memory someones phone contact… I’d be screwed.  I’m sure most of us would be too.  In this day and age, technology is there to make our lives more convenient, like who needs to know how to spell anything now that we have spell check.  But I think in the process it’s making us stupider too.

Can you remember any phone numbers or do you let your phone do all the remembering?  Also, I remember a time when I didn’t have to dial an area code for local numbers.

I’m an old man.