A letter of thanks to Apple, from a grateful dad

A Medium Corporation ^ | April 29, 2016 | by David A. House

[Talisker]

Write your emergency contact info on a sticker on the back of your drivers license.

[smokingfrog]

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/print-contacts-list-itunes-49851.html

[bgill]

IOW, Dad raised an idiot who had no bleepin’ idea what his home number was. Another one who has his entire life inside a bit of plastic.

[publius911]

IOW, Dad raised an idiot who had no bleepin’ idea what his home number was. Another one who has his entire life inside a bit of plastic.

What happens when you jump to conclusions is embarrassment.

Get a hard enough knock to the head and even you can fail to remember your own number.
At least for a while.

[ransomnote]

FWIW, a reporter got Einstein to admit that he didn’t know his own home address. Einstein became irritated and muttered that his assistant had that info.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Pleasantly surprised. Seeing the picture I thought the title was sarcasm to the nth degree.

I don't use Siri (aka b!tch in a box) because I find ‘her’ more annoying than helpful. Maybe I should reconsider......Nah. The annoyance factor is too great to overcome. I am glad to have the option, though.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

IOW, Dad raised an idiot who had no bleepin’ idea what his home number was. Another one who has his entire life inside a bit of plastic.

Good catch. It goes right along with the idiots who are asked their phone number and respond, "How should I know? I never call myself!"

[roadcat]

This kid could not remember ANY phone numbers to be able to call home in an emergency because he relied so much on his memory crutch of his mobile device to remember them for him.

It was so much easier to remember in my old days, mnemonics were easier. You remember the exchange alpha name for your neighborhood and some digits. As a kid, my phone number was Valencia-62062, otherwise dialed as VA-62062 or numerically as 826-2062. Extremely easy to know. Area codes spanned a large multi-county area and were not necessary, so just 5 digits to remember. In my father's day even fewer digits to remember. Now you have to remember 10-digit numerics without the alpha mnemonics. Plus the original area code has been split many different times to new numbers in our area.