What kind of stuff sticks in your head? My employer has called me a human rolodex in the past as I could rattle off phone numbers of vendors, or other numbers of "vital" importance in the day to day working world. I remember the phone number we had when I was a kid, I used to recognize a family member's car by a license plate, not so much these days...My memory for some things is good, for others, not so much.

My parts guy has an excellent memory. He saw a Rambler on the way home tonight a 65 Classic. Tonight he asked me to enter a number into Google and add Rambler part #.

Sure enough it came back. The part number he rattled off was the tail light lens. Needless to say, it's been a while since he sold parts for a 1965 Rambler Classic.

So he's good with remembering numbers, but he married me on 8/4/84, so that it would be easy for him to remember. What's up with that?

 

Hmm. Is there anything I remember? I don't really think so.

 

I think I have a knack for remembering trivia. But as +1 says to me, you know a little bit about a lot of things and not much about anything. I will say that I test my memory constantly with loads of complicated internet passwords, which are mostly terribly mispelled uncommon words.

 

I'm sorry - what was the question again??

 

User names and passwords get me now and again.....

I can recall playing Trivial Pursuit "back in the day" and pulling an answer out of a hat. It is weird the stuff we can recall at times.

 

Now I understand your screen name!

 

more useless crap than you could possibly imagine.

 

Memory for me is selective. I cannot remeber how old I am, phone numbers, birthdays. However I can go a week or two without logging any transaction in my check book and know with $10 how much is left. I can drive right to just about any place I want to without a map or address as long as I have driven there once and in business I can call on a company I had not been to in 8 years and remeber the decision makers name, what equipment they had back then and their application.

I just don't have the room to keep up with the small stuff. When cell phones added a name/number list I quit remebering them. I could care less about how old I am but never want to be overdrawn. I do find myself having to think a little harder to recall places, people and applications as the years pile up.

I guess memories are what is important to me or what has impacted me the most like a story my parents-grand parents told me when I was a child, things they did with me or for me, placed they took me.

Lainey, your significant other may not rember that one day out of our long lives but more important is they remember to come home to you every night.

 

[QUOTE=jukngene,] Now I understand your screen name!

 

I have a pretty good memory, but I notice I'm particularly good with numbers. I can remember phone numbers, for example, that I haven't called in ages.