MENTAL BLOCK - INCORRECT PIN

stefanovich · 11-05-2015 08:02AM

Happened to me once many years ago. Finally remembered it but yes, it is such a strange feeling.

I also remember forgetting how to spell the word "the" once.

anncoates · 11-05-2015 08:17AM

Tattoo the new one on your wrist, just to be sure.

Dr Strange · 11-05-2015 09:01AM

beks101 wrote: »

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Has anyone else ever experienced this?

Yes, I have seen this before. It's known as a "blown cerebral cortex" (see attached illustration for more detail).

cloud493 · 11-05-2015 09:03AM

I keep my pin and a few other things written on a slip of paper locked in a safe. Just in case I ever lose my mind or I get hit on the head really hard etc.

razorblunt · 11-05-2015 10:18AM

Been there ... twice.
First time was on a night out, second time in a supermarket.
In the supermarket I had cash, luckily, so paid up and went home. Needed to get petrol later on, filled the car, rocked up to the til without thinking about and boom pin was entered correctly. Good old muscle memory saves the day.

TheBeardedLady · 11-05-2015 10:36AM

I learnt a bit about memory in one of modules on my uni course last month and was doing a bit of research to see if there's any science behind it but found this article in the process:

http://www.mindfulmoney.co.uk/personal-finance/londoners-most-likely-to-forget-their-pin-number/

And a funny article by Charlie Brooker:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/aug/20/money.comment

Couldn't find any science though.

IvyTheTerrible · 11-05-2015 10:39AM

Yes, once. Very panicky moment!

TheBeardedLady · 11-05-2015 10:45AM

I know this is probably a bit stupid but I have it as the last 4 digits of a made up name in my phone book on my phone. I leg it somewhere and check on the sly if I forget.

11-05-2015 10:51AM

Mine's six digits and I kept having a problem remembering it so I just learned it like a little rhyme in a different language.. Weird but it worked.

Lingua Franca · 11-05-2015 11:37AM

Had the brainfart happen to me at a checkout once, and even though I knew I didn't know my PIN any more I kept bashing numbers into that thing until my card locked. I actually said outloud "I've forgotten my PIN. I'm just going to guess some numbers. Nope... nope... locked!" The checkout girl was looking at me as if I'd gone mad. I'm just glad I had the cash to cover my shopping.

H3llR4iser · 11-05-2015 11:54AM

Roar wrote: »

And once I spent several minutes looking for my car keys. They were in my hand all along.

This. This I do it more than once a week. I all fairness, I'm always holding quite a few things when this happens (gym bag, work bag, home keys, phone, jacket). Then I wonder like a Neanderthal baby when I realize I was holding them all along

DareGod · 11-05-2015 12:02PM

Yes! This happens to me every few months. It is so unsettling! But I'm delighted to hear I'm not the only one!

BMJD · 11-05-2015 12:07PM

hmm
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I've forgotten what i wanted to say

biko · 11-05-2015 12:21PM

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

I know this is probably a bit stupid but I have it as the last 4 digits of a made up name in my phone book on my phone. I leg it somewhere and check on the sly if I forget.

Me too.

For instance my American Express credit card pin 5555 is saved under Amelia Earls 0861235555
And then I back up phone numbers to google contacts so it can never be lost

You can easily save any pin or door codes etc like this.

Fat Christy · 11-05-2015 12:27PM

I can never remember my verified by visa password. Blocked my card about 50 times. I have also completely forgotten my pin as well.

Sometimes I go looking for things and they're in my hand like my fcuking phone or my glasses which I tend to be wearing!! I have also thrown my washing into the bin by mistake or put my keys into the fridge and other random sh*t.

smash · 11-05-2015 12:33PM

Years ago in Xtra vision I'm a queue to get some movies. Wallet in one hand and DVD's in the other. Get up to the counter and the guy asks what my account number is so I blurt it out and he says "That's only 4 digits" to which I reply "Oh shít sorry, that's my pin number"... Paranoid visions of scumbags jumping me to get my wallet took over so I ran to the car, straight to the bank link and changed my pin, which I then forgot and managed to get my card blocked.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 11-05-2015 12:44PM

smash wrote: »

Years ago in Xtra vision I'm a queue to get some movies. Wallet in one hand and DVD's in the other. Get up to the counter and the guy asks what my account number is so I blurt it out and he says "That's only 4 digits" to which I reply "Oh shít sorry, that's my pin number"... Paranoid visions of scumbags jumping me to get my wallet took over so I ran to the car, straight to the bank link and changed my pin, which I then forgot and managed to get my card blocked.

I've found my mind wandering when I'm in a long queue for the tills, and I'd have my card in my hand, and repeating the pin over and over in my head. next thing, the cashier goes, "hello, how are you", to which I'll very nearly reply "5248"

razorblunt · 11-05-2015 12:54PM

biko wrote: »

Me too.

For instance my American Express credit card pin 5555 is saved under Amelia Earls 0861235555
And then I back up phone numbers to google contacts so it can never be lost

You can easily save any pin or door codes etc like this.

Just to put the cat amongst the pigeons, it's probably safer putting it as the first four digits maybe? This is what I started doing for a card that's very rarely used (work) when I learned alot of folk use the last 4 method.

ianobrien · 11-05-2015 01:48PM

I break the pin number into two, two digit numbers and remember them. For example, the pin 2145 gets broken into twenty one, forty five. Then I have to remember only two numbers.

That works for me anyway.

fizzypish · 11-05-2015 02:04PM

ianobrien wrote: »

I break the pin number into two, two digit numbers and remember them. For example, the pin 2145 gets broken into twenty one, forty five. Then I have to remember only two numbers.

That works for me anyway.

Remembering the pattern the numbers make on a keypad is handy too.

Lingua Franca · 11-05-2015 02:41PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Just to put the cat amongst the pigeons, it's probably safer putting it as the first four digits maybe? This is what I started doing for a card that's very rarely used (work) when I learned alot of folk use the last 4 method.

I keep a tiny scrap of paper with my dad's handwriting on it in my purse. There's a couple of phone numbers on it, I don't know who or what they are for but I have little enough to remember him by so I keep it. All of my recent PINs and other codes have been plundered from those phone numbers, start middle and end.

TheBeardedLady · 11-05-2015 03:00PM

biko wrote: »

Me too.

For instance my American Express credit card pin 5555 is saved under Amelia Earls 0861235555
And then I back up phone numbers to google contacts so it can never be lost

You can easily save any pin or door codes etc like this.

Amelia Earls! I've also chosen names of people I'd never be friends with like "Bob Halloway" and "Sue Huntington". Funny how really posh English names pop into my head when I'm trying to think of a random name.

ScumLord · 11-05-2015 03:14PM

I have a running fear of this happening to me whenever I use a card. Usually it happens in shops and I have to go down to an ATM to trigger the memory.

I have to clear my mind and try not thinking about entering the pin because the second I try and remember what the numbers are they're gone. I have to just trust my fingers know what I'm doing when I go to the ATM. God help me if anyone tries to rob my ATM card and asks for the pin.

SMJSF · 11-05-2015 04:27PM

I done this on a first date years ago. went to the cash machine to get money out for the cinema and a meal after, and I knew the sequence in my head since I had the card for years. I blame this on the nerves, I ended up mixed the first number with the first number of my phone pin, and at the end of it was **23, but I kept putting in **89... (why!!!?).. well, it was fun standing around the main street for an hour trying to get on to the bank.... what a great date I was!
But he figured out I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar after a while!!

Or else I mix my current acc pin with my savings acc pin, which I use about once a year!

MENTAL BLOCK - INCORRECT PIN

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