Phone Dependency

I think I only have three or four phone numbers memorized, and one of those phone numbers is the phone number for our old house abroad, and my own cellphone. I mean, it's so easy to access your phonebook from your cell phone, why memorize?

Well, if you're like me and you keep forgetting the only phone that you have and you are stuck at a gas station without a phone list and with only a pay phone, it might be a good idea to keep a list of emergency contacts in your wallet.

Like with all things emergency, it is best to prepare for an emergency before hand. In addition to having a handwritten backup on your wallet, you can also leave yourself a long message in your voicemailbox. Read aloud the name and phone number from your address book in the order of importance (who would you call first) and save it in your mailbox. When you are stuck in Anytown, BFE without a phone, you can call your own cellphone and listen to your address book message.

Sure, you just lost a quarter making that call, but it beats getting the wrong number 25 times in a row.