Funny old thing the brain

Same here NanKate. I can remember the Dewey number for football from my not very misspent youth as a children's librarian. But when asked for my mobile number I haven't a clue. And I have had that number for 10 years! So aggravating I agree.

Learning the number of my mobile phone has been my New Year's resolution for the last three years, but I have yet to manage it! (My excuse is that we get no signal here so rarely use it.). However I have just impressed DH by remembering the name of the scorer of a goal scored at Torquay United about thirty years ago.

I can't remember any of my passwords for on-line banking etc but I can remember that 1846 was my Mum,s co-op divi number from arounnd 50 years ago.

1107 mum's co-op number
873789 my teenage best friends phone number

My mobile, er, um, ...........

I'm always amazed that anyone knows their own mobile number [I don't] and anyway it's such a long number.

Mum's Co-op number 45009. No idea of my own. Childhood car numbers BVO 330, PFC753. When I need to remember my current registration for a car park machine my mind goes blank.

I'm not telling anyone my mums coop number is the password for everything.

FZ 74 was the registration number of Dad's first car. I was seven. Whenever I sign a visitor's book and have to enter the number of my car I have to go back outside and look because I can't remember it.

I can remember my mum's co-op number, my first car reg and DH's car reg when I first met him.

However, I have to look out of the front door if asked our present car reg and I can't even remember where I put my mobile, let alone the number.

I can remember several phone numbers, bank account numbers and sort codes. My credit card 12 digit number is firmly lodged in my brain along with the expiry date and security number on the back, probably something to do with the frequency I use the card . I really don't understand how or why I can remember numbers so easily when I am completely useless at any form of maths

I once sent my credit card PIN number a Christmas card because I 'hid' it in my address book as Penelope Pinner with a false address and phone number.....Geddit???

I was working my way through my address book and couldn't remember who the hell she was so I sent her one anyway.

Merlot Brilliant!

What a complicated life you lead Merlot

I remember one of my dads car numbers it was HVX 554 and my old style NHS number which I won't disclose.The new 10 digit one is a blank. The numbers of family houses I have lived in are 35, 52, 29, 23, 67, 20. from 1948 to current day. I cannot remember my mobile number.

I'm another one who can remember telephone numbers, car number plates, and the names of not very well known entertainers from the 60's, but have all my important mobile numbers, passwords etc written down. Recently, my brain went fogged and I couldn't remember the pin number I'd been using for several years. I could recall all the numbers, but not in the right order. This prompted me to follow mum's lead, and use my date of birth - I know, I know, bad idea, but it works

I remember Mum's co-op number 16089 and DH's first car TGR 220, but can not recall my mobile number or indeed any other phone number.

I'm setting myself a challenge and have given myself a week to learn my mobile number. Now to find the location of my mobile !

Bobby Hebb? Who he?

I can remember the house names and numbers from all the houses I have lived in from age 3 onwards. I can clearly remember our first car reg number [it was an Anglia as well]. I can't remember ANY telephone numbers [and I have to think hard to remember my present number.]I can recall quite a lot of names of girls/boys from primary school but not from the next school. I can remember all the nasty teachers names from both schools [ a lot.]I can remember neighbours names from when I was about 11, but forget present neighbours names.Old age, what it does to you!

I remember (wow!) going to M&S years ago and putting in the wrong pin number three times. How could I have done that? Must have been agitated about something else at the time.

I can also remember the house number I lived in age 3 as I lived there from birth to 20!! And it is the same number as the house I now live in.

Rose, Bobby Hebb sang a song in the 60s called 'Sunny' . I'm sure if you heard the first few notes it would come back to you.

Oh, NanKate, I shall have it on the brain all night!

Hope you slept ok Rose.