Our mobile devices are wonderful for many things, but the cripple us when they fail. 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. That is something we should ALL learn from this tale. The Moral of this story is DON’T rely on your iPhone or other mobile phone to remember your Emergency Contact Information. . . It just may not be there when you most need it! That phone may be smashed, lost, burned or otherwise just not available to make that call for you.
He might have had his bell rung....
I’m guilty of not knowing phones numbers any more. I know a few but not many. My cell has me depending on it too much. I’m going to get a small phone note book as I use to have years ago. Do they still make them?
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.