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Shoutout to my Mom in Tulsa who made me memorize her phone number when I was 6, turns out that's the one thing that actually saved me
Lost my phone in a parking garage last Friday and had to borrow a stranger's to call my wife because I still know that 918 number cold, but here's what bugs me, everyone says kids today need to memorize emergency contacts yet nobody ever talks about how my generation only learned one number and it was always a parent's, so what number from your childhood can you still dial without thinking?
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reed.skyler11d ago
Wait, so you're saying learning just one number is a bad thing? I kinda see it the other way. My parents' house number was the only one I had memorized too, but that was enough because it was a guaranteed person who would always pick up and knew what to do next. Most kids I knew couldn't tell you their own best friend's number, but they all had that one family line locked in. Having a single rock solid number beats having five half remembered ones you're not even sure still work. It's not about how many numbers you know, it's about knowing one you can trust 100 percent.
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