I'm so old I Remember when:

[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.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I know it says July 4 but the rules still apply.

 

[Bsmac]

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

We live in the country in the heart of Amish country here! Amish love to shoot off fireworks and cause explosions!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

All fireworks are illegal here but that doesn’t stop people LOL

 

[Love Donkeys]

Stay Safe!
from Hubby & Me and all the Critters too!

 

[MROO]

Her phone number is *redacted*. I have that memorized.

I was thinking more along the lines of having him figure out the rotary phone!

 

[MROO]

Ah, Y2K. The world was definitely going back to the Stone Age. I thought that was sort of idiotic. What was a computer going to do, reset itself to 1900 instead of 2000, realize it didn't exist, and self-implode? So I chose that day to fly back to Korea from NY.

The flight was blissful. There were so few people on that plane (3-4-3 seat configuration), whole row sections were empty. I sat at a window when I was awake, and in a middle section to sleep.

It was empty because so many people were afraid to fly ... y'know, all that Y2K air traffic control was SO gonna crash every plane that flew!