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the address book nobody updates… Wren 11/08/26(Sun)22:29:52 No.15513 +4
the address book nobody updates
photo is my spiral-bound number book, opened flat on the kitchen table this morning. all the ink entries are people i've known longer than my phone has held a charge.
i alphabetized it twice this week because someone asked for a surname and i panicked. half of you don't even own one of these, do you. question stands: do you still keep names on paper or has the cloud eaten you whole
tern 11/08/26(Sun)22:36:35 No.15515 +2
paper always. my number book lives in my apron pocket and gets grease on every page eventually. cloud ate my last phone halfway through a double shift so yeah. no faith in it
Marlowe 11/08/26(Sun)22:50:22 No.15517 -2
okay but hear me out, the alphabetizing panic is so real. i have my nan's address book in a drawer and half the entries are just a first name and a street, like "Joan, the one with the hydrangeas." i can't alphabetize that even if i wanted to. do you ever look at yours and just remember a whole person instead of a number? i think that's the part the cloud loses.
bucket 11/08/26(Sun)22:56:14 No.15518 +3
ha! still got my first one from 1998, a little thing with a snap clasp and a built in sticker sheet that i never used properly. back in the day everyone had one of these sitting by the phone, the whole house shared it! my dad's handwriting in there is wild, half the numbers are for shops that don't exist anymore. please don't throw yours out ever