Do you like the idea of passing phone numbers down to your kids or other family members?

I was on the back deck, looking for possums, not thinking of much, really, when my mind kind of floated toward how we don’t memorize phone numbers any more because we have them in our phones, on speed dial (or whatever.) Plus people change numbers ALL the time.
I thought about my number, which I was given in 1995 for my landline, which is now my cell phone number. A BUNCH of people have that number memorized and it’s saved a few souls when they were stuck, needing to call someone but didn’t have their phone with them.
I figure I’ll be bequeathing the number to one of my kids someday.

Then I thought…I need to tell my kids that the next one who changes their number, has to see if they can get 316–555-1212, which was my childhood number growing up! (Go ahead. Call it. Ask if this is Dutchess_III’s child hood number!)

So, what do you think of that idea?

I lost my number once, during the dark days of the shop. I had a choice between paying the shop phone bill, or my personal phone bill.
My number was gone for so long that by the time I could pay the bill, it had been assigned to someone else. My family was close to devastated! My grandson who was about 8, wailed, “That was the first number I ever memorized!! Waaaa!”
So I went on a mission. Every so often I’d call SWB to see if that number was available again. About 6 months later….THERE IT WAS!!! And I took it back!