A Classic I'm Sure Everyone Has Gotten

[zigcat]

ME: And your phone number please?
SC: I don't know. I don't call myself.

And yet, you were perfectly capable of giving me your address though I'm sure you don't send yourself mail. You gave me your name though, unless you're batshit crazy, you don't address yourself by name. But a phone number is completely elusive? Got it.

[Nordel]

What's your date of birth please?

I don't know! I didn't give birth to myself!

[sms001]

I have heard that about a gazillion times, but never took it to the logical conclusion. Too funny.

[Kittish]

Heck, I've said it a few times my own self. Especially once cell phones really started getting popular. Never really thought about the logical progression, though.

[BowserKoopa1]

Me: Can I get your name, sir?
SC: I don't know, I don't talk to myself.
Me: Ok, what is it that people call you when they talk to you?
SC: My name.
Me: Which is?
SC: I don't know.

[dalesys]

SC: I don't know.

Was your head with you ALL day?
[/Cos]

[tollbaby]

What's your date of birth please?

I don't know! I didn't give birth to myself!

Actually, I go pretty much everywhere with my ex-husband that he's likely to be asked for his date of birth or his phone number, and he usually just gets a blank look and gets me to tell them LOL

[XCashier]

And yet, you were perfectly capable of giving me your address though I'm sure you don't send yourself mail. You gave me your name though, unless you're batshit crazy, you don't address yourself by name. But a phone number is completely elusive? Got it.

I'm going to have to remember that one next time!

[Chromatix]

There *is* some logic to forgetting your own phone number.

Address: no, I don't send mail to myself, but I do get myself home every evening - and I walk past a street sign with the name of the street on it, an illuminated sign with the building number on it, and my apartment number stares me in the face as I unlock the door.

Name: no, Chromatix doesn't refer to himself in the third person (much), but I *have* learned to recognise when somebody else is calling me.

Date of birth: I'm much more likely to remember my own than anyone else's, because as a child I got to anticipate all the lovely presents. Even though it was only about three weeks after Christmas.

Phone number... I don't call myself, my phone doesn't remind me of it when I turn it on, and I don't have to recognise it to receive calls. The only time I use the information is when giving someone else the number.

In fact, I have memorised my main phone number, but *not* the one for my emergency spare phone - but to counteract that, I have programmed the number into the address book as "This Phone". Even if I forgot my main number, it's on the business cards I carry around with me.

[manybellsdown]

Actually, I go pretty much everywhere with my ex-husband that he's likely to be asked for his date of birth or his phone number, and he usually just gets a blank look and gets me to tell them LOL

I may have married your ex-husband, because mine couldn't remember our home address after 6 years. Or the phone number.

[Cranky Cabbie]

Yep. I get people who have lived in the same house for their entire lives and STILL don't know their address.
Or their phone number
...
Or name

[Teskeria]

ME: And your phone number please?
SC: I don't know. I don't call myself.

I got that response once. and then it went:
me - Do you ever give your phone number out?
Him - of Course!
Me - What number do you give
him -(rattling it off quickly, and BTW it was the correct one) 123-456-789

[Sunshine]

My poor dad cant remember moms birthday....its ten days after his!!!

[MoonCat]

For those of us who work in a call center, this comment is akin to the "If there's no price it must be free" that cashiers get. We've heard it approximately 87,455,234,888,000,223 times (or something like that ).

[Racket_Man]

Was your head with you ALL day?
[/Cos]

OK you must have memorized (like I have) ALL of Cosby's material (George Carlin is a VERY close second). You just get to the posts before I do DARN IT.

Great quote though.