Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 25, 2021

I’ve used my palm to write down a phone number.

When he thought of more paper, I have a box of scraps of paper (about the size of grocery lists) from the print shop at which I was first employed. Not just grocery list s thereon, but I write —on both sides of course— my four weeks’ worth of grocery store shifts which I jot down from the online employee database.

Surely the back of the hand is less prone to rubbing or sweating off?

Nah, I used that in high school.

Why, yes. Yes of course I does that sometimes.

Or a pilot in WWII.

or your forearm for phone numbers…..

can’t count the times i wrote on my palm or the inside of my lab jackets when still a clinical nurse – ink washed right out of jackets

I use the backs of the return envelopes from the bills I receive, as I pay the bills online.

I don’t think I have done that but I have used a scrap of 2×4 when going to the hardware store.

i write a note on my phone, then forget to look at it.

Palm pilot.

Many a time I went to the lumberyard with a block of wood that had “X” number of 2×4s, “Y” number of 2×6s, and “Z” number of whatever else.

I am a competitour. I write all my times and such on my arm. Done it for over fifty years : )

Or used your fingers to count off the items that were on the list that you forgot at home.

Wrote on mine just moments ago. The best way to keep reminders handy, and environmentally good as well.

If I have a pen – I usually have a scrap of paper. Most of the time – no pen, just hoping I remember what it was. Lots of folded post-it notes [in my pocket] for me, when I’m coming from home.

We keep a white board near the pantry, grocery list goes on that. Then I take a photo of the list, go to the store, realize I forgot my phone at home. Next to the canvass bags.

Notes on my left palm all the time, usually in Sharpie. Alcohol hand sanitizer is a really effective solvent for Sharpie, dagnabbit!

Still do.

Me. All the time.