I'm so old I Remember when:

[Bsmac]

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I remember those!

 

[Cynthia12]

My mother and us kids would bang on pans and yell Happy New Year..along with other neighbors..on New Year's Eve. I still do it.
We moved in this house a year ago last December. Got out our pots and pans and started making noise when low and behold, we heard someone else banging their pans and shouting Happy New Year. First I've heard in years.

 

[Evadig]

My mother and us kids would bang on pans and yell Happy New Year..along with other neighbors..on New Year's Eve. I still do it.
We moved in this house a year ago last December. Got out our pots and pans and started making noise when lo and behold, we heard someone else banging their pans and shouting Happy New Year. First I've heard in years.

I have never heard of this!

We always stay up though and watch other people’s fireworks and eat Christmas cookies if there’s any. We used to go to church for a service but our current one doesn’t do that.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I'm in town so it sounds like a young war with all the fireworks.

 

[RoyalChick]

Oddly enough, I remember my parents' phone number form the home I grew up in - because you had to actually dial each and every number to connect - but could not tell you anyone's cell number - not relatives, not friends, not work. Just a name on a screen that fits in the palm of my hand.

I remember the phone number of my best friend from age 7. Also my grandmother's phone number when it was 3 letters to indicate the town plus 4 numbers.
These are all useful numbers to remember to use as PIN numbers and passwords!
Can't remember my own mobile phone number to save my life (fortunately it seems to know it!).

 

[RoyalChick]

My mother and us kids would bang on pans and yell Happy New Year..along with other neighbors..on New Year's Eve. I still do it.
We moved in this house a year ago last December. Got out our pots and pans and started making noise when low and behold, we heard someone else banging their pans and shouting Happy New Year. First I've heard in years.

I love that tradition - never heard of it before but think it is great!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

My mother and us kids would bang on pans and yell Happy New Year..along with other neighbors..on New Year's Eve. I still do it.
We moved in this house a year ago last December. Got out our pots and pans and started making noise when low and behold, we heard someone else banging their pans and shouting Happy New Year. First I've heard in years.

We do this, too. It's traditional in Ireland. We open the doors and windows and bang on pots to scare out bad luck.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I remember the phone number of my best friend from age 7. Also my grandmother's phone number when it was 3 letters to indicate the town plus 4 numbers.
These are all useful numbers to remember to use as PIN numbers and passwords!
Can't remember my own mobile phone number to save my life (fortunately it seems to know it!).

I remember my childhood street address and phone number, and my first PIN number (when ATMs were brand new).

 

[Smoked Brisket]

Decades ago I read about a country in SE Asia where, when a Lunar Eclipse occurred, the locals thought a dragon was devouring the Moon. The whole village turned out to bang pots, shoot firecrackers and fire automatic weapons at it. I heard there were fatalities, but overall it was successful. After about an hour the dragon had fled and the Moon was safe.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

These are all useful numbers to remember to use as PIN numbers and passwords!

I may have heard it from you.
I use my grandmother's old phone number for my passcodes.
It has uppercase, lower case and symbols.