Always forget, Never Remember

[-Jrabbit]

Yeah, I've got plenty of worthless stuff that I cannot get out of core memory, like my childhood phone number, my high school locker combination, and my first-ever credit card number. Some, like my driver's license number, is marginally useful.

The number of things I cannot remember without assistance is now epic. And yes, it gets worse with age. But I rarely walk into a room and wonder what it is I wanted to do there anymore. Somehow, that got better. I think.

The minute-to-minute stuff Asher mentioned (forgetting lunch, power cords, etc.) is, it seems to me, more about a lack of focus (or focusing elsewhere) than true malfunction of the memory.

[duke o' york]

You have no friggin' idea.
I can remember the phone number of the house I lived in when I was ten.
I cannot remember the phone number of the house I'm living in now.

QFT. Worse than that is that I can't remember my girlfriend's number. So if my phone is stolen, I'm forked.

[Wezil]

Actually, you aren't.

[duke o' york]

The interweb has many bizarre powers, but being able to receive naughty emails is just one of its many good things.

(as long as it finishes with: "My number is: 07*******.")

[Wezil]

I have a similar problem Anyone who's anybody is in my cell phone.

[duke o' york]

My new phone is a Nokia, and it's so bloody rubbish that if anyone held me up for it, I'd be delighted to give it to them, as long as they let me take the sim card out first.

[Asher]

Nokias are, indeed, awful. I should bump my thread.

[Jon Miller]

I have always had even worse memory for old stuff than current stuff. Even 5 years ago seems like a lifetime ago, and I can hardly remember anything.

JM

[Zkribbler]

Here's a song from YouTube that SlowwHand posted not too long ago.

[Cort Haus]

Nokias are, indeed, awful. I should bump my thread.

I read Nokias as Nikolais

[SlowwHand]

Here's a song from YouTube that SlowwHand posted not too long ago.

I forgot about posting this.

[Asher]

I read Nokias as Nikolais

Yes.

[DirtyMartini]

I often think that if I could purge all the 80's song lyrics from my memory I'd be much better at recalling mundane things.

[notyoueither]

You have no friggin' idea.
I can remember the phone number of the house I lived in when I was ten.
I cannot remember the phone number of the house I'm living in now.

You can remember when it was the hosue that had a phone number.

Tee hee.

So can I.

[SlowwHand]

Rotary dial.