What numbers did you memorize as a kid? How old where you? And why?

For me it my address number at some time in the second grade. I really don't remember exactly the why or even when. Yet I suspect it was the second time I went through the second grade.

As to why I can speculate that it was because that school was so darn far away.

Yet it was most certainly not because of my parents. I doubt mom ever knew our address even decades later. And dad never lived with us for him to memorize it.

So what set of numbers did you memorize? When? And why?

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bijouxbroussard · F

I remembered my address and my phone number, as well as the birthdays of every family member. In SF some supervisor had the bright idea of requiring young school children to wear dog tags with their addresses and blood types, in case they were in accidents. I still have mine somewhere. Definitely a different time.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard We had those. It also included your blood type.

bijouxbroussard · F

@hunkalove Yep.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard address was the only thing I remember. Phone I wasn't even allowed to touch. Again party line. Blood type I didn't know until after my motorcycle accident. SSN number not until I entered the Air Force at 19. It was my military ID.

Those that I knew of my family was all over the USA and Germany, Mom, my father, my half brother in California, half sister in Iowa, and another half sister in Maryland.

Cousins on my mother's side were all in Germany. I never knew anyone on my father's side, yet from what he told me they were all over the world. Canada, Argentina, Northern Africa and grand mother in then Czechoslovakia.

Could give the months for my half brothers and sisters and a niece, yet that is all.