Drabble by Kevin Fagan for June 02, 2021

What’s the number for…..911?

I still remember the combination to my high school combination lock!! R 23, L 25, R 31. It helped that the “serial number” to that combination lock was 231!!

Easy peasy!!

This is actually true. I remember knowing dozens of numbers. Someone would tell you their number and you memorized it. And we looked at maps before we went places. Of course, we had time for all that. Just sitting around the cave.

Writing your passwords down in a safe place would help.

And I remember the numbers of my family home and my late dad’s office. There was also a mini file(not a Rolodex) with names and numbers of all the family friends.

That’s a pretty big Wally flag…

I had a phone number that ended in 4459 and Dave’s pizza place had 4559. Made for too many late night calls. Not a problem any more.

if you still remember that obscure phone number, that’d make a great password somewhere

And the kids have trouble remembering a password!

When the computer goes down in a fast food restaurant, and the clerk behind the counter has a tough time with simple math…..

In Ottawa, Ontario, GoGo Pizza was the best! Now it has a new name, but is still a pizza place, and that’s over 50 years now.

I had a little address book that I kept near the phone so I wouldn’t lose it. I would be given a scrap of paper with a number on it that I intended to enter as soon as I got home (or just throw away in some cases). Almost every time I’d forget and find the number weeks later and have no clue who gave it to me. A couple of times I thought to write the name next to the number, but being given a number was rare enough that I’d forget about the problem of not doing that.

It would be fine if they didn’t keep making you change your password.

I remember my phone number from when I was 7 years old (I’m 65 now). It was DAvenport6-5514.

I didn’t have to remember peoples phone number, we were on the same party line.

Trick was that people’s phone numbers were just that numbers and did not need to be changed every 2 or 3 months as required on most job related work stations. Also, the phone numbers were mostly public record and listed in a phone book that were accessible to almost anyone.

I’m with Ralph; I still remember the phone number of the pizza place from 40 years ago.

We had a big card tacked to the wall by the phone. Its entire surface was covered in numbers written to run in every direction, many not even identified.

phone numbers that you memorized decades ago make good passwords.