Most folks know I am challenged by numbers in many ways. Carrying a number in my mind across a room is almost impossible. Remembering a six-digit number from one screen to another is not easy, particularly if they should be in the same order. Today I hit a new low. I was hurrying to go out to walk, looked at the digital clock at 7:11 and said in my head, “Seven eleven-teen.”
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😃 Our lows are sometimes meant to give us some humor to brighten our day.
Have a blessed day/night.
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Thank you, Deborah. Blessings on you, too.
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My brain mixes up numbers as well sometimes Anne. I think that’s normal and as we grow older the memory is supposed to go,…..that way we don’t remember all the bad things we did when we were younger!
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who mixes up numbers.
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I have a tendency to transpose numbers when I’m writing them down. This can make balancing a checkbook a challenge at times!
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Yes! Numbers need to be kept in their place!
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In church I got into the habit of looking the numbers in reverse. So, if the scripture wasn’t reading right, I knew to transpose the numbers and go there, lol. I wasn’t old then. Now, I can fall on that excuse, lol.
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We all need good excuses.
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I hear you, and numbers are troubling. I can study hard things, remember verses for storytelling, not sure I would do well in a cognitive test though. Don’t be hard on yourself.
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We all laugh at my struggle with numbers.
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Seven-eleven-teen sounds about right to me. Who wrote the rule that said “teen” only started at 13? I think you are on to something here.
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There are words people and there are numbers people, I’m a words person. I leave numbers for others to deal with. Nothing to do with memory or age. xo
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You’ve made a good decision. I worked for an accounting firm. They had me doing the payroll, knowing I couldn’t even remember what my own salary was. I also typed numbers for all the audit reports.
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Nice number memories. Remember ing number
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Numbers jump around in my head. I wish I could make them stand still.
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Very nice .
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Thank you so much.
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Then there are those of us who are somewhat cursed with not being able to forget numbers that no longer have significance…everything from phone numbers disconnected decades ago, to prescription numbers and doses. And, if the military said goodbye to my bones and boots in 1968, why does the 10-digit sequence they decided would be better than my name for identification still roll out of my mind like a fingerprint? I just cannot lose numbers. (including the 77 words of this comment)
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Your problem must be the exact opposite of mine. I’m impressed, but I wouldn’t trade problems with you for anything. It would be awful to be haunted by numbers. Go figure!
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I can still rattle off my late-ex-husband’s US Army serial number after all these years. We were married in 1955. Of course I can’t do it if I think about it, just off the top of my head.
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That is amazing.
I can remember one child’s birthday, and from that I can figure out the other two.
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I always think my middle daughter was born the 24th… it was the 25th, the day before Thanksgiving. Thus the mixup
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Old numbers I remember. News ones not so much. I remember my 5 digit employee number from a company I left in 1989. Can’t remember what I had for breakfast. Our minds work in mysterious ways! 🙂
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I remember telephone numbers from 75 years ago. Dad’s office was 29. The main pharmacy was 1. Our home was 125, Mamaw 207 and Grandmother 278. There hasn’t been room for a new number in my brain for 40 years.
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Your number storage area needs a spring cleaning! 🙂
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Numbers are my downfall!!
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Oh Anne- consider yourself just imaginative with numbers!
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Thank you. I love that idea!
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See? All about perspective and rose coloured glasses!
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It sounds like you could be dyslexic to me. If you haven’t had this problem all of your life, then some a brain injury can cause it. I am dyslexic and have coping strategies to deal with it. When I am tired, it is worse.
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John has dyslexia, so I know what that looks like. I have a lame brain with a super drainage area for numbers.
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😉
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I kind of like the term “seven eleven-teen. I think I am going to use that one to my kids someday when they ask the time….just to see what they say LOL.
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I don’t know where that odd time reading came from, which makes me wonder if my brain is going to start going off the rails. Telling time is pretty basic.
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The brain is on overload – think of all we process during the course of the day!
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Like you I can remember old phone numbers. Occasionally I start to say 636-2633 instead of our current number. I last had that number in 1965!
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A previous Australian treasury leader is quoted as saying, eleventh billion dollars….
Your gaff is forgiven.
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