OMG that story perfectly illustrates just how stupid all our reliance on electronics has made us. 250 miles?!!!!
I used to know phone numbers, but even I have difficulty remembering them now. That's one thing I do use my phone for - number storage. When I destroyed a phone a while back and could not get a recent version of my contacts, I was pretty much screwed. I started hardcopy (an address book, which was really hard to find in the first place) a few years ago just in case.
Robin keeps an address book which includes phone #. She uses it for sending out Christmas cards, not so much for the phone #, but it sure is a good back up.