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Thread ID: 113677 2010-10-30 21:57:00 ATM Machines - no letters on keypads anymore Morgenmuffel (187) PC World Chat
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1148925 2010-10-30 21:57:00 Hi all

Ok I struggled with this yesterday, I don't know my eftpos pin number, I know the letters not the numbers, was in Matamata the other day, and i was unable to get money from the atms, because they no longer have letters on the keypad they only have the numbers, am i the only person that works that way

and no i didn't have a phone that i can look at the keypad to work the numbers out with me at the time, it sounds daft but when the letters are there i barely glance at them when entering my pin, but when they are not there i can't function with the keypad.

And yes i am trying to teach myself the numbers, but they are just not sinking in

Am i the only person that functions this way?
Morgenmuffel (187)
1148926 2010-10-30 22:01:00 Yes plod (107)
1148927 2010-10-30 22:09:00 Surely you can find a phone somewhere where you can transcribe them even if you don't have one.
A Russian scientist did a survey a number of years ago and he found that females remember names better than males and males remember numbers better than females. That certainly applies to me as I can remember all my bank account numbers including the 16 digit visa but will forget names in a flash.
mikebartnz (21)
1148928 2010-10-30 22:10:00 Excellent, i'll vote Labour and the Tree Huggers at the next election, hope they win, and give my disability some Hokum name and apply for grants and the sickness benefit, and a spokesperson role for this disability, and be set for life.

How does diskeypadlexia sound?

Mind you the word Key seems to upset Labour and lesbians (Key is a male object which goes into a female object the Key hole or Bronagh) so perhaps a more PC sounding

numericalinputdevicelexia?
Morgenmuffel (187)
1148929 2010-10-30 22:21:00 :D mikebartnz (21)
1148930 2010-10-30 22:35:00 Surely you can find a phone somewhere where you can transcribe them even if you don't have one.
A Russian scientist did a survey a number of years ago and he found that females remember names better than males and males remember numbers better than females. That certainly applies to me as I can remember all my bank account numbers including the 16 digit visa but will forget names in a flash.
No i am equally dumb, I can remember my Cellphone number, after 7 years, but i can't remember current home phone after 6 months, anyone elses phone number, age birthdate/year. weirdly i can remember my old bank account number from when i was in primary school but thats it
Morgenmuffel (187)
1148931 2010-10-30 22:52:00 I'll send you some details I saw for "Improve your memory" classes.

Damn! I've forgotten where I put them!!
tuiruru (12277)
1148932 2010-10-30 22:53:00 For about the first year I remembered my internet banking number only by the positions of the keys on my numpad.

I could only do it by just touch, If I actually looked at the keys and tried to remember what the numbers were, I'd screw it up.
Agent_24 (57)
1148933 2010-10-30 22:53:00 I'll send you some details I saw for "Improve your memory" classes.

Damn! I've forgotten where I put them!!
:D
mikebartnz (21)
1148934 2010-10-30 23:21:00 I remember phone numbers, all 3 of them, plus friends numbers, relatives numbers etc.
Bank account numbers - there's more than one account (no, not suffix).
I remember passwords, all 48 of them.

I remember the old phone numbers too.

I am useless at maths but I remember numbers for some weird reason. And passwords........
pctek (84)
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