Oodles of Noodles

Is it common to not know your home telephone number? I haven’t know the phone number to the last six places I’ve lived. Over the past 12 months I’ve moved 6 times. That’s quite uncommon, but what’s even more uncommon is that I never even tried to memorize the phone number to my house. I never even stored it into my cell phone so that I would have it handy to call, just in case something happened. Why is that? I think it is definitely because cell phones are the main mode of communication these days. No one only uses a land line for communication, or are there actually people out there who still use land lines as their primary line? Even business cards list a land line and a cell phone number now. Everyone is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week due to cell phones. Just ask my dad. His job requires him to have a cell phone so that he can be accessed at any moment. Not only does he have a cell phone, he has a BlackBerry so that he can check his email every 5 minutes. It’s crazy how technology keeps us so connected these days, or are we too connected? Is it too much when people actually have to go to therapy because they are addicted to their BlackBerry? Trust me, it has come up a couple of times in my therapy sessions. I don’t think I’m as obsessed as other people, plus I have recently traded in my BlackBerry for an MDA. I really miss my BlackBerry, but the MDA is so much better. It has so many more features, in addition to the BlackBerry features, to keep you connected. So back to my point: I guess what I’m trying to figure out is why I feel weird about not knowing my own phone number, but I do know the number to my MDA and I guess that’s really all that counts. Seriously, who’s going to call my home phone besides telemarketers and my grandma anyways?