Do you remember odd things?

This afternoon I decided to add a load of contacts to OH's email. I asked him for his password and he gave me this load of gobbledegook. What the hell is that and how can you possibly remember it.

Easy it's my Army number. He left the Army in 1969.

I thought it was strange, he thought it was strange that I had no idea what my National Insurance No was. Or the number of my bank account.

Are you good at remembering numbers? Do you know your NI number or Army/Navy number if you were in the services?

Is it a man thing?

I think it's a man (services) thing! My OH can remember all sorts of silly things, like his post code from a zillion years ago, his service number etc, such a pity he forgot to buy eggs and milk yesterday

All ex-service people will remember their number Gypsy.

They've had to shout it out so many times in their life that it's etched into their brain.

The same with the number a 252 - that's one to be wary of.

Numbers i really struggle remembering them but oddly i know my NI number can say it instantly without thinking but struggle with my house phone number (well you don't ring your own number) no idea of my mobile number.
I really struggle with bank card pin number have to really think and have to use loading bay to get into work because front door has one of those code access pads and can never remember the numbers I'm given.

Jimandsi wrote:All ex-service people will remember their number Gypsy.

They've had to shout it out so many times in their life that it's etched into their brain.

The same with the number a 252 - that's one to be wary of.

I had about 4 or 5 of them throughout my army time. Got ROPs every time!

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Jimandsi wrote:All ex-service people will remember their number Gypsy.

They've had to shout it out so many times in their life that it's etched into their brain.

The same with the number a 252 - that's one to be wary of.

I had about 4 or 5 of them throughout my army time. Got ROPs every time!

Co op divi number, navy number, ni number even the telephone box at the end of the road I was bought up in, which is still the same, sad eh.

I remember my Gran's divi number 13780, but I can´t remember my mums, something like 24883 or it might have been 24663.

I was sent this the other day. How many do you remember.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels[if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8.. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10.78 RPM records
11. Hi-fi's
12. Metal ice trays with levers
13. Blue flashbulb
14. Cork popguns
15. Wash tub wringers
16. Spud guns
17. Making your own bow and arrows
18. Going out to play and going home at 'meal time'

If you remembered 0-3 = you're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-11 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 12-15 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

I remember them all except the ice tray with levers. We never had a fridge until I was in secondary school.

Remember virtually all but wouldn't say 45 is ancient but daughters have been telling me I'm for a few years now I'm old now .

:Not me Guv:

Blyth Spirit wrote:Remember virtually all but wouldn't say 45 is ancient but daughters have been telling me I'm for a few years now I'm old now .

:Not me Guv:

I remember the bloody lot, mud pies, ant sandwiches for the orrid kid in the street, fixed wheel bikes and lace on roller skates. Tin and early plastic soldiers, stereogram with radio, record player and b/w tv. How about watching colour tv through someones curtains, I expect the pervs on here still do.

Eeish even I am ancient, although having said that I did live in a backward country

Cruella de Vil wrote:Eeish even I am ancient, although having said that I did live in a backward country

England.

England ? Country ?, Toilet you mean

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Jimandsi wrote:All ex-service people will remember their number Gypsy.

They've had to shout it out so many times in their life that it's etched into their brain.

The same with the number a 252 - that's one to be wary of.

I had about 4 or 5 of them throughout my army time. Got ROPs every time!

I did my square bashing at RAF Swinderby near Lincoln.

A load of us got 252's and had to sweep the runway with 12" brooms !

Took us all fecking weekend ! ! !

Jimandsi wrote:

I did my square bashing at RAF Swinderby near Lincoln.

A load of us got 252's and had to sweep the runway with 12" brooms !

Took us all fecking weekend ! ! !

Yeah, that would probably equate to the army's punishment of sweeping the square with toothbrushes! Pointless but instilled discipline so when they said GO! you went!

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Yeah, that would probably equate to the army's punishment of sweeping the square with toothbrushes! Pointless but instilled discipline so when they said GO! you went!

Shame the missus never says it.