How many people can recall the phone numbers of their own family members or closest friends, very few? I've even seen people go to their phones to recall their spouse's phone number, very sad.
I'm not going to say that we don't use our car's GPS, but Robin is a map freak. The glove box in our car is stuffed with maps. As soon as she saw all the maps that the American Homesteader store had, which I pictured in this post,
she behaved like it was Christmas morning.
https://peakd.com/hive-196308/@thebigsweed/market-friday--what-took-me-so-long
Funny story, a few years ago our sons invited a few friends up to the farm. They put the directions into their GPS to get to the farm. One young man, traveling with a buddy put our address in the system, but not the correct one. After they had been on the road for 8 hours they realized they were only a hundred miles or so from the Canadian border, listening to the GPS all the while. They had traveled north by 250 miles more than they should have, realized their mistake, and traveled another 300 miles to get back to our place, never having a clue.
So many people dismiss the facts about the harmful effects of always having a phone pressed to their ear can cause.
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.