How many phone numbers do you know by heart?

[Scott5114]

I can remember phone numbers easily. I just have problems remembering what number goes to what sometimes. One time a friend I was with asked me what the number was to order a pizza. They rang the number I gave them and got the receptionist at a job I had just gotten.

I can remember another number that I'm pretty sure goes to the office at the Burger King I worked at in 2009, but I'm not 100% sure about it.

[SignGeek101]

Probably about 4. I don't really have a need to remember too many phone numbers.

[Alps]

I know several:
* Phone number from my childhood home (201-744-5760, back before the 973. Go ahead and call it)
* Phone number from my parents' current home
* Parents' work numbers
* A handful of high school friends - I know at least one off the top of my head, and at least five more that I'd recognize if I saw them
* College girlfriend - I didn't have a cell phone for the first month or two we dated, so I had to learn her number. I'm trying to forget it
* Old work number (973-237-1650, go ahead and call it now)
* Current work number - main number, my own and several other extensions
* NJ Turnpike main numbers and a few extensions
* My dad's cell - close to my own number

No one I've met since I left college. Straight into the phone and done.

[The Nature Boy]

I only really remember my own number and my grandmother's number. The latter only because her usage of it predates me having a smart phone.

I feel like such a millenial.

[Duke87]

If we're counting numbers from commercials, I certainly remember "1-877-Kars-4-Kids" and "1-800-Mattres", along with..

877-393-4448 (something about signing up for Cablevision, I think)
1-800-BUY-A-CAR
1-800-CALL-ATT (it's free for you, and cheap for them!)
1-800-COLLECT
10-321, later changed to 10-10-321
888-LADYBUG (for a company selling lawn and garden equipment)

[vtk]

If we're counting numbers from commercials,


10-321, later changed to 10-10-321

Also 10-10-220
800-333-DISH for Dish Network, which apparently isn't the number they advertise anymore
614-895-1111 central ordering for Pizza Hut carry out & delivery orders from any Columbus location
800-95-JENNY
800-96-JENNY
800-97-JENNY
800-98-JENNY
800-99-JENNY
800-JENNY-2000

614-###-RIBB [redacted for privacy] for a local barbecue place whose customers used to often call our house by mistake because of one wrong digit

[signalman]

Not many, really.  Most that I remember are ones that I called often before I had a cell phone.

-Parent's home line (been the same since 1985 when we moved into their current home, I don't remember the number of the first house that we lived in, I was 5 when we moved out)
-Grandma's house
-My cell (I don't have a land line)
-Pizza place that I have been ordering at since I was a kid
-Work
-My best friend's cell
-An ex girlfriend's house (was easy to remember, the last 4 numbers spelled TITS (it was fitting, she was well appointed))
-My first job, but none between that one and my current one

Those are all that are coming to me besides the aforementioned ones in advertising jingles.

[bing101]

867-5309 from the 1980's song
1-800-ABC-DEFG from the 1990's hooked on phonics commercial
588-2300 Empire today flooring commercials in the Los Angeles area

478-KFRC from the 1980's 610am KFRC San Francisco.
808-0810 KGO-AM talk line for Ronn Owens and other KGO-AM talk hosts.

[roadman65]

You know since the speed dial on the cell phones, I never even think about the phone numbers.  Even when you go for a job interview and need the numbers for reference, you just bring your phone along and copy from the stored numbers and contact list.

Yes, I realize now that if I lose my phone and I have an important job interview, it can be a strike against me if I do not have the contact's number on the application as it shows the potential employer that I may be unprepared for the interview.

Maybe I should remember them now seeing this thread, especially the people I plan to use as a reference.

[dfwmapper]

614-###-RIBB [redacted for privacy] for a local barbecue place whose customers used to often call our house by mistake because of one wrong digit

Why would you redact something that can be found in 2 seconds on Google?

[1995hoo]

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614-###-RIBB [redacted for privacy] for a local barbecue place whose customers used to often call our house by mistake because of one wrong digit

I had forgotten all about this until this thread. During the summer of 1996 I worked at a small law office north of Raleigh. Our phone number (872-3000) differed by one digit from the local Country Inn by Carlson (872-5000). Problem was, the yellow pages misprinted the hotel's number: They printed our number instead. So we got lots of calls for the hotel. What always amazed all of us (since it was a small office and we all answered the phone at various times) was how stubborn and stupid callers were:

Me–"[Name of firm], may I help you?"

Caller–"I'd like to make a reservation for [whenever]."

Me–"I'm sorry, sir, the phone book has the incorrect number for that hotel. You need to call 872-5000."

Caller, who clearly didn't hear a word I said–"I don't have the wrong number, this is the number listed in the phone book."

Me–"This is a law firm. For some reason, the phone book has our number listed for the hotel. Trust me and try calling 872-5000 instead."

Some of them would still argue, at which point I would interrupt and say "Have a nice day" and hang up.

[Pete from Boston]

A guy from the Upright Citizens' Brigade had the same number as the help line for the internet service given out free by Kmart, Barnes & Noble, and some others around 2000, only theirs was area code 800 and his was 212.  Thus, he was inundated with calls from folks who didn't dial the area code (not the sharpest callers), and being frustrated and a comedian, began recording himself giving them his own creative customer service:

http://www.mattbesser.com/?page_id=15

[davewiecking]

Because my parent's didn't move from when I was 3 until long after I moved out, I had lots of friends that stayed the same (and kept their phone number) for long over a decade. Can remember the phone numbers of neighbors growing up, and an insane amount of phone numbers of friends from growing up. I also have an insane amount of phone numbers in my head that I can't exactly correlate with a person, but I know they were important at one time. This isn't button pattern memorization, because most of these numbers had to be "dialed". I read this thread last night, but it took me until just now to remember my freshman dorm phone number (256-5630).

Has the OP been watching a fairly recent Elizabeth Banks movie, in which this was part of the "plot"?

[vtk]

614-###-RIBB [redacted for privacy] for a local barbecue place whose customers used to often call our house by mistake because of one wrong digit

Why would you redact something that can be found in 2 seconds on Google?

Because polite people won't go Googling it and trying to figure out which digit is different from my home phone number if I make a token gesture of self censorship. As for why I included the number at all, [redacted].

[Pete from Boston]

There's a very catchy phone-number jingle here for poison control.  It's a bunch of ones and twos.  Unfortunately, it morphs in my mind into the similar, catchier "Don't Put Mercury In The Trash" song, so I never know who to call when I'm poisoned.