# Do you know your phone number?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-phone-number/648901 "2013-01-31T10:49:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-phone-number/648901/21 "2013-02-01T20:55:56Z")

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I know my home number, cell, work, and my wife’s cell. Dialing my wife’s cell sounds like Mary had a little lamb to me which is funny enough to me. I also remember my number from when I was growing up as a kid. I can remember one of my sister’s numbers but not my mom’s or my other sister.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-phone-number/648901/22 "2013-02-01T21:00:23Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> I also remember my number from when I was growing up as a kid. I can remember one of my sister’s numbers but not my mom’s or my other sister.

I can still remember my parents’ number from when I was in high school. And the number of a woman that I dated way back in the 80s. That was super easy to memorize, based on my parents’ number.

Them: 716-555-5555  
Her: 617-455-4555

Don’t bother calling that number. She’s not home.

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-your-phone-number/648901/23 "2013-02-01T21:15:19Z")

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I can answer both yes and no to this question.

I have had the same Vonage home number for a little over three years, now, and was able to memorize it fairly quickly. So yes to that part. However, when I moved a year and a half ago to a place in a different area code, the landlord told me that in order to program my number into the apartment call box, I had to have a local phone number (I suspect that’s bullshit in this day and age, but it wasn’t worth arguing with him about). So I added a second phone number with Vonage for $5/month that rings to the same line. Beyond the area code, I have no clue what that number is, even though I can recall specifically getting one that would be easy to remember.

Oh, and that call box? It doesn’t work anymore.

In other news, I know my cell number and my wife’s cell number and my work phone number. I can’t think of any other numbers I have memorized these days.

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