> nobody remembers or cares 30 years later how it actually went down Or, nobody remembers why the number is valuable. That was the problem with my grandmother;

> nobody remembers or cares 30 years later how it actually went down Or, nobody remembers why the number is valuable. That was the problem with my grandmother; when she told the story to us, telephone numbers had looong ceased to be significant (or indeed, hard to get) so the fact that yours was small or big didn't mean anything, and it sounded so strange to us that one would cherish it.