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Sat, 12/29/2007 - 10:18
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Yeah, just in case you need some easy sex you keep your ex's phone number. Personally, I delete the number and block it too. You have to protect yourself against drunk dialing:

Nearly two thirds of people keep their ex-partner's number on their mobile phone "just in case".

Some do so because they want to feel the number is close to hand, however unlikely or inappropriate it is to ring it, a survey from the Orange company found.

But others keep numbers as if compiling a "little black book" which they can show to friends to boast of their conquests.

The survery of 1,487 people also showed that 63% of people use only half the personal numbers stored in their phones.

Some admitted hoarding old text messages and also keeping embarrassing video clips that they never watch or pass on.

An Orange spokesperson said: "The New Year is a great time to start afresh.

"As the makeover shows say, clear the clutter and you'll be able to see the wood for the trees.

"We should apply the same rules to our lives, our desks and even our mobile phones."

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Sat, 12/29/2007 - 13:38
kayten

I keep them just so I know not to answer. If I don't keep them in there, and there's a drunk dial from just a ten-digit number, I'd probably answer it since I wouldn't recognize it. If it comes up as "Dave" then I won't.

It has actually come in handy a few times.

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Mon, 12/31/2007 - 09:57
Betterthenyouknew

I actually talk to my ex's... from your reactions to this info, it sounds like an ex, to you, is a viper one should keep away from. I don’t know - I keep on friendly terms with most of my ex’s, and even the ones I don't speak to regularly, I still catch up with once or twice a year. If I didn't keep the number's I'd never talk to them again. I think that's kind of sad after really sharing with someone for an extended period of time.

Then again, none of my relationships have blown up in a way I didn't enjoy, so... maybe I wouldn't keep those numbers… live and learn, I guess.

A.

Mon, 12/31/2007 - 12:34
kayten

Well I suppose we need to define the term "ex". I am relationship poison, so my "ex"s refer to ex-lovers, whom I may have seen three or four times, without really much sharing going on, and cetainly not enough for an "extended period of time."

I have two former relationships in my life, one was in 1990 whom I still email with on his birthday, and one was my ex-husband, whom I'll never fully get away from because we have a son together.

I suppose if I were capable of actually having a relationship I might have your more pleasant problem, but no such luck. In that case, yes, it is good to know who is attempting to make a booty call in the middle of the night in order to be able to avoid it. Otherwise it would just come up as a phone number and I would answer it, never knowing if it were one of my girlfriends in crisis or something or some other kind of emergency.

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Mon, 12/31/2007 - 14:50
Betterthenyouknew

OK,

I can understand your trepidation in those cases.
Though I have to say, if I've gone on 3 or 4 dates with a girl and it didn't work out, I certainly hope she doesn't still keep my number in her phone, in the fear of some call from me. I don't get guys who do that, it's cruel and ridiculous.

I remember another post on the site about this guy who wouldn't let up from this girl when it didn't work out. Honestly I felt sorry for the guy for being such a loser he couldn't let it go. -- I don't remember exactly which post it was, or when, but I'm pretty sure I read it on this site.
I understand though how tough that could be on the girl. I had the reverse of it for a while a couple of years back. A girl I'd hooked up with about 3 times in a matter of about 2 weeks kept calling me from another country for almost a year. I was going nuts. I could never see the number, cause back then, international calls were always marked "unknown number" by the phones, and I try to answer all my calls. I also have friends abroad so I could never know whom it was anyway without answering.

In this case I can understand why a girl would keep the number. But I think it's pathetic if the guy actually does end up calling to bug her.

A.