2006-08-24 16:46:47 · 19 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
LOL, WOMANWHOREADS, it sounds like you now have a question to post! JOY-ANN, it's "definitely", but we all knew what you meant, baby girl! =)
2006-08-24 17:29:34 · update #1
Yeah... that happens to me quite a bit. One time at work I had to go to everyone in the office sell raffle tickets for charity.
I could not remember the name of this one guy. So I tried to pretend to write his name down for the raffle and asked him to spell his name.... He gave me strange look but he spelled it for me anyway " B - O - B ".
2006-08-24 17:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by ♥☆ Star ☆♥ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOL! Yeup! I hosted a TV talk show on a local cable channel for a little over 3 years. People stopped me in the mall, calling me by name all of the time. I have never been good with names, so I did not know if I really knew some of these people or if they simply recognized me from the show. I also had a job that put me in front of thousands of people several times per week. That only complicated matters more.
2006-08-24 23:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by Will D 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Smile and pretend usually works.... and you would be in good company.
Linus Pauling (who won two Nobel Prizes) was terrible with all the names of people he worked with. He arranged his office so that when someone entered and sat down, there was a chalkboard with a "directory" of names behind them. He would talk and scan the board until he figured out who he was talking to.
Aloha
2006-08-24 23:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happens to me a lot, but even though I can't remember the name the face I know. But, on that off chance that it does, I ask how everyone is doing, usually they will say something to jog the memory.
2006-08-24 23:51:33 · answer #4 · answered by Becky B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
Someone did that to me yesterday on O'Connell Street, and we parted with "Ring me!" "OK, email me!"
How are we going to do that? I can't rem. what the heck their name is? Or why it was we didn't want to keep in touch, when we worked together? What is that? If whoever it was liked 'being friends' so much, then how come in three years we have totally lost touch?
Was it just me or what? Glad you said it!
2006-08-25 00:10:10 · answer #5 · answered by WomanWhoReads 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. It's even worse when they look familiar but I can't remember who they are and start trying to scan my memory for ex-colleagues, ex-classmates, clients, neighbours etc. to try to remember where I know them from. Veeeery awkward and embarrassing.
2006-08-25 10:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happens almost everyday at work. I hate names.
2006-08-24 23:49:01 · answer #7 · answered by SummerRain Girl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup. My wife and I have a deal where if that happens and we're together, I introduce her and she'll ask what their name is. If it her, I ask their name because that's our cue that we can't remember their name.
2006-08-24 23:54:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ron D 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't mind telling people I don't remember their name. I think it's eventually better.
2006-08-25 00:25:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and then you get that dumb look on your face like a deer stuck in the headlights so that they KNOW you forgot their name. It's so embarrassing!
2006-08-24 23:57:12 · answer #10 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋