Thursday, December 16, 2010

How to really, really impress someone with your memory skills

Hi, can I speak to Darren, please?

He's just on the phone. What's it regarding?

He wanted to talk to me about a Japanese TV documentary. I'm a memory man.

Oh, yes. Can you leave your number, and he'll call you back?

Yes, it's 0115... 8...

01158...

I've forgotten. Um... [frantically hunting for my latest phone bill]


Eventually I told her a number, hung up, found the phone bill, called back to tell her the right number, and hung up again in deep embarrassment. And he didn't call me back.

5 comments:

Bert said...

I blame the Muppets; heavy Muppet exposure maded me rely stuped,

Anonymous said...

there is only 2652 image to learn in cards not 2704.52x51.

Bird said...

Bird is the word!

Zoomy said...

Bert - the constant companionship of Ernie will do that to you. Get away from him for a while!

Anonymouse - do you think I don't know how many images I've got? Sheesh. I also have images for two identical cards together.

Bird - wow, I'd forgotten all about Sesame's Treat! I remember it was on Top of the Pops one time, and they'd got about half a dozen kids to dance along to it, including one boy who was significantly older than all the others and looked horribly self-conscious about it. I felt deeply sorry for him...

Anonymous said...

You need repeating images for intershuffled decks. Question is: Does one bother with Jokers?