Do You Know Your Passport Number? By Heart...
May 28, 2019, 6:24 am
#46
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To make it easier for myself, the last time I renewed my passport I engineered it so that the issue date and expiry date would be the same as in the previous passport, only exactly 10 years later.
I wouldn't realistically be able to repeat that any more, sadly.
How quickly it takes me to memorise any of our collection of current passports and travel documents does depend on how often our travel patterns require these to be deployed.
I wouldn't realistically be able to repeat that any more, sadly.
How quickly it takes me to memorise any of our collection of current passports and travel documents does depend on how often our travel patterns require these to be deployed.
May 28, 2019, 6:28 am
#47
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
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I think mine starts with 1078...or maybe that's my cell phone number. Knowing my Argentine ID card number is more important as that's asked for on a daily basis. However I don't know that off by heart either.
I can tell you every one of our ten dogs names though.
I can tell you every one of our ten dogs names though.
May 28, 2019, 6:41 am
#49
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Yes. It took a while to get the old one out of my head and memorize the new one but i've got it down now. Oddly, mine starts and ends with the same 2 numbers in the same order so it's really just remember what's between the bookends.
May 28, 2019, 6:43 am
#50
Join Date: Aug 2010
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Me too, I also can include the 8-digit gym entrance code. My name I can still recognise/recall but as an official OF I did slip off the footpath on Friday to walk round a group of kids and walking has been painful ever since!
May 28, 2019, 7:01 am
#51
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Oh, and back OT, being ex-military, one NEVER forgets one’s Service Number!
May 28, 2019, 7:14 am
#53
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
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Yes know it off by heart and have only had it for 7 days. But I had to submit to the government (PR in different country to my home country), APEC card, an eVisa application and some travel bookings, such that I’ve already memorised it.
May 28, 2019, 7:17 am
#55
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I know my passport number and expiration date; bank account + sort code; 6 credit/debit card numbers plus expiry dates, generated (i.e. not chosen) PINs, and CVV codes; BAEC, AA, CX numbers; some wifi network passwords (again generated, not chosen); 6 or 7 upcoming PNRs; and more besides ... mostly I just need to use or see something twice and it sticks without any effort. I'm told by my partner that this is "a bit weird".
May 28, 2019, 8:00 am
#58
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Nope to remembering passport number. Yes to NI number.
It was only last month that I realised that the first and last 3 numbers on my bank account are the same. I've had that account since 1983 ...
It was only last month that I realised that the first and last 3 numbers on my bank account are the same. I've had that account since 1983 ...
May 28, 2019, 8:18 am
#59
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Calling GGL from the car yesterday, the agent heard some traffic noice and excused herself for the need of a security question, asking me for my full address. My prompt answer was full postal address, email ditto, passport number & expiry date and date and flight number of my last BA experience.
Speechless for some 15 seconds, she commented "but that's ALL the security question's answers, we normally only ask two or three of those". OK, I said, "that's a special price only for you". A constructive and pleasant call in all.
May 28, 2019, 8:20 am
#60
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: London
Programs: HH Diamond, BAEC Gold (OWE)
Posts: 204
Sadly I remember both of my active passports' details - including numbers and expiry dates. Alongside my BAEC number, Sixt rental number, NI, drivers license...
As with another poster above, if you ask me where my passports are currently situated, I need a good 30 mins to rustle through the 38182 safe keeping spots in the flat, and my last flight was Sunday...
As with another poster above, if you ask me where my passports are currently situated, I need a good 30 mins to rustle through the 38182 safe keeping spots in the flat, and my last flight was Sunday...