Who are you again?

This only happens with popular people who meet loads of people almost everyday...........as well as people with real bad memory.

Yes it is kind of embarresing for you and the person your talking to,but at the end of the day "that's just life."
 
~My biggest problem is the fact that i know alot of people not like everysingle one of them is my friend but more the fact that i'm on talking terms with just about any of the stereotypes in the school (jocks, goths, sk8trs, douchebags, girly girls(not very often XD), preps, ect. ect.). But what i hate sometimes about this is when i do see people ive seen before i tend to jummble throughout my head mixing
(random names + face = person walking toward me goin "HEEEEYYYY BUDDY!")
~But i'll let you all reading this in on a little secret of mine when i cant figure out thier name if its someone who knows me well enough and i know they know i tend to call people minor insults just for fun(mainly just close friends who actually alot of the time call me more hardcore things, but i still laugh XD) i can easily great thier "HEEEEYYYY BUDDY!" with a "Slut! oh im sorry i thought you were someone else hows it been :awesome:?" Luckily i love theatre and am quite the good actor :x3: but surprsingly this works out quite often but im sure for other people the results may very XD oh well lol
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It happens to me ALL the time! I guess I just suck with remembering names and sometimes faces. They will have something that looks KIND of familiar, but as for the rest I can't even seem to remember where I've met them before or talked to them. It's pretty sad because they seem to be all happy to see you and you're just kind of standing there like, "Uhm...s, sorry...er...do I know you?"
 
I had this happen to me just yesterday.

This girl came around to our house with another friend and I knew I had seen her face before but I just couldn't place it.

She said, "Remember me?'"

I squinted and was like, "I know I've seen you before but I can't remember where from."

She mentioned a party we both went to that I totally couldn't remember and then she mentioned how she got a tattoo one night we were all hanging out and our mate at the time was giving her a tattoo in the house. That instantly sparked my memory. She was originally a brunette but yesterday she had blonde hair.

I hate it when people know me and I'm the one who doesn't know where they're from. I feel stupid and rude. Probably feels like to them that they weren't important enough to remember them.
 
xD Ugh I hate that. It happened recently at the bank too with this really cute guy. However he was cute in a normal kind of way, he was plain, average but good looking. Didn't have any features that reminds you of anyone, you know what I mean? My age too so we must have gone to school but I couldn't place it.

Awkward conversation ensued when he asked how I was, etc, and I tried to reciprocate without being too.. obvious about his anonyminoty.
 
Never happened to me in real life, but quite a lot online. I always forget people's names. I don't want to but I just have a terrible memory. But to answer the question, YES! It is very awkward. :ahmed:

especially if it's a cute boy. :sad3:
 
It happened to me in the bank a few weeks ago when I was at work too.

I was depositing the banking into the work account and while I was waiting I turned around and saw this guy look at me and point at me.

I freaked out because he was with another guy and I thought they were going to jump me on my way out. >.<

I turned around again a bit later and he was still looking at me and it freaked me even more out.

So as I headed to leave I tried to be quick and then he called out my name.

I turn around and it's my old workmate from my last work place. His hair had totally changed from a brunette crew cut to a blonde spikey rocker sort of hair cut and I totally didn't recognise him. I felt bad when I tried to run away from him. He musta thought I was trying to avoid him. XD
 
I have the worst memory when it comes to names. Faces I can usually remember, but then the person usually prompts "Oh you remember me, don't you?" ...and then the awkward silence ensues where you grapple for their name. Usually I just end up admitting I don't remember their name...and they give it to me. I hope people don't consider it a personal insult, because usually it really shouldn't be. If I don't see someone for 5+ years I'm not going to lie, my memory isn't what it used to be and if they weren't important to me at some point and were simply just "there" I'm not going to freak out if I don't remember their name years down the road.
 
This happened to me A LOT when I moved back down to my home state. I have terrible memory... and all these people came up to me and were like "HEEEEEEEYYY"

I played along, but on the inside I felt terrible. I still try to remember them, but to no succession. Kinda sad, lol.
 
Yeah. There's this guy who works at a store out in this one town. My mom and I usually go there when we both get groceries. I recognize this guy who I think is a manager. I'm pretty sure he went to high school with me but I cannot remember his name. I think he recognizes me too, but we never talk to each other or say hi.
 
This doesn't happen to me too often, probably because I went to school in a different town and no one visits this village unless they have family here!

However, I did revisit my old school recently for work experience. My first form tutor there spent the entire time during break looking at me and I just knew he was trying to work out who I was. When I went back to the staffroom for lunch, he said 'You're Judy, aren't you?!' and seemed so excited and pleased that he'd figured it out.

Moments like that really do remind you that, no matter how much you were afraid of them when you were at school, or how much you admired their knowledge, all teachers are normal everyday people.
 
The following image reflects me quite a bit. I'm very terrible with names, but usually very good with recognising faces.

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(I must thank Belody for pointing me in the direction of that series of cartoons on the brain the other day.)

People would introduce themselves to me, and unless I see the name in writing or am in constant interaction with them, I lose the name. Most names are common names that are easy to forget. I need to make more of an effort in trying to memorise a name, and I guess repeating it helps.

As for not recognising people generally, or similar awkward situations... I rarely forget a face, but unfortunately God isn't as creative as I'd been told when I was growing up. A lot of people do ultimately look very similar, and I've seen people that I thought have been other people. I remember some random street-seller once approached me and was talking to me. I thought he must have been someone that I used to know at school because he looked familiar and I asked how he was, then he just pointed to his t-shirt to signal that he's just a random seller.

So really I tend not to forget people easily, but I can get people I don't know mixed up with people I did know once. I've met many clones of people that I used to know walking about. Roughly the same face, same hair, same mannerisms. It's hard to understand how that can happen.
 
I always think that once I leave someones life, they forget about me forever. I'm not even a part of their memories....

Turns out I'm pretty damn memorable, because people from years ago always remember me and my name, yet most of the time when I see them, I remember the face, but not the name.

This happens way too damn often and I feel horrible about it. I usually try to avoid the names coming into the convo, but when it does they learn the harsh truth.

It bees what it bees.
 
This always causes unbearable tension. I remember when I was in my first year at Uni I was introducing a girl I had met on my course to my flat mates and I forgot her name mid introduction. I had known her for about a week at the time so it was pretty bad. I just stood there thinking for about ten seconds. My eyes so very far away. Then the girl said "have you forgotten my name?!" and I was saved by sudden recollection. I think I dodged a particularly painful bullet that day.
 
When HASN'T this happened to me :( I'm SUCH a forgetful person! It frequently happens with adults that haven't talked to me in ages or who I have only ever met once... I even forget the names of the people I hang out with down at our little hang out place here in town :( I feel SO ashamed :sad3:
 

Yeah I remember. I meet a friend who was the same age as me on the bus but I can't seem to remember his name so when I was home I had to check on Facebook for his name. Hopefully that'll be the last time...
 
Lol oh gosh, yeah this happened last month when I was shopping at Kohl’s. I was browsing for clothes and this lady who worked there said, “Hey, nice seeing you here.” I looked at her, smiled and automatically said, “Oh hey, how are you?!” at the same time thinking, “Wait do I know her, she looks familiar...! How do I know her? Where is she from?” So there I was struggling to remember her while smiling and casually having a nice conversation and it took about a minute to finally register that she’s one of the moms I sometimes see at my son’s school. But she acted like we talk normally when... we don’t, lmao. I’ve only said hello to her in passing a few times. So it was a little awkward having a 15 minute convo, but it wasn’t so bad. We chatted about our work. That’s about it.

A few days later I was walking home with my toddler and we saw each other again. So we walked together for a bit, but I haven’t seen her since. I don’t even know her name.
 
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