Mobile phone numbers

[Marooned in Maywick]

If someone asks for yours, how do you group the digits in your response?

 

Me? It's 2-3-3-3 which effectively translates as 5-3-3 since the first two are always 07.

 

It just feels less natural if someone tells me their number using a different grouping.

[muckleflugga]

5 - 3 - 3, but suppose it'll depend on how the digits group, colleague at work, his ends 41 61 41, so he'll obviously say it that way

[Nigel Bridgman-Elliot]

I do it in two's, like:

 

seventy-five, twenty-two,eighty-one

 

That way I reckon its easier to avoid situations where you get two or more numbers next to each other, and also helps prevent numbers being swapped around.

[sassermaet]

I say either 5-3-3 or 2-3-3-3.

[mstevens]

Definitely 5-3-3.

[nederlander]

Guess I'm different then, I would go: 4-3-4

[Twerto]

2-2-3-4 usually followed by "if that doesn't work swap the ? and the ? around as i can never remember what way round they are".

[DamnSaxon]

I don't even try to remember it, life's too short. It's written on a sticker on the back, so I just pass them the phone.

 

(No, they don't nick it, who's going to run off with an eight year old mobile?)

[Frances144]

I think mobile phone numbers have to be the most unmemorable (is that a real word?) ever. Mine, I have had for years, and I still can't remember it, find it nearly impossible to find in the phone and have it written down somewhere in the house.

 

I also can't remember anyone else's mobile phone numbers either - even ones I phone daily. Is it the amount of numbers? I have memorised most folks' BT phone numbers just out of habit and general use but a mobile number holds no memory in my head at all.

 

Funny that! Just an observation!

[tlady]

^^

 

Me too Frances .. not a clue about my own number.

 

But I can reel off Hubbys one

[beachcaster]

I have had for years, and I still can't remember it, find it nearly impossible to find in the phone .....

 

I could never remember my mobile phone number either. I entered my number in my phones "contacts" under AA Mobile, so it is always the first number in the list and easy to find when i had to tell someone my number.

It also means that anybody having a poke around inside your phone will automaticly assume that you are either a raging alcaholic or have a very unreliable car.

[tarotangel]

I usually go 3-3-3-2. I have a few that I try and remember but that's about it.