Am I the only one who is hooked on numbers?

Today every passage system, telephone, computer, etc., has numbers. Pin codes, license plates, and so on – they all have a meaning for me and they stick to my memory. I am a dream come thru for the police looking for a certain car… I can remember plates a long time. I know it is a strange thing… I know…

For a long time I used the “US V8-system”. The first 35 years of my life I was into cars.
409, 283, 302, 454, 400, 262, 396, 440, 426, 326, 331, 327, 350, 289, 500, 340, 360, 427, 390, 215, 402, 354, 348, …, … I could go on with this list forever. Combine these numbers and their backwards version – and you have a "mind chart" that helps you remember almost any combination of numbers.

For me a phone number during these years could consist of a GM and Mopar product topped off with a backwards Ford.

Nowadays, however, the US V8-system has more and more been replaced by the “Caliber-and Omega/Rolex reference-number-system”. But when it gets complicated I combine them.

Maybe the title should have been – “what´s in a brain”? After a while I no longer think of the numbers – I just see the combination of V8: s or watches.

Anyone else out there?

PS - what got me to write this? Well one guy had 409 likes and I have 1861. And my brain started... a hugger orange Chevy 409 with it´s characteristic valve covers and a Speedmaster...

 

I'll take a 302, but make it a Boss please.

 

The brain is amazing, no? That's kind of Rainman-esque. A 428 Cobra Jet for me!

 

I'll stick with the 7 litre Chrysler in a Jensen Interceptor (preferably the 4wd) or the Series 1.

 

If you walked up some stairs would you be able to say how many stairs you walked up without mentally counting them out before or as you go?

 

Well, I know that it is 88 steps where I live - but that is because I have counted them. I am not a savant. I reckon my "system" is just a way of keeping things in my memory. A way to attach pictures - to my mind - of something that is easier for me to remember than the actual numbers in themselves.

 

Most people who enjoy numbers are counters. Pretty quick with math, and always get questioned as wrong because i have worked it out so quick
(got a weird system)

Funny, i could fish with a bloke all day and tell him how many times each of us have changed lures all day (15-20 times each) at the end of the day or during the day and i have never thoughtfully counted ever...