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#1

Seeing someone whose name you should know, but you don't..? Man, I am usually spot on with names, but occasionally, I run into people I knew from a few years back, and carry on conversations for a long ass time and somehow avoid saying or using their name...

I've been trying to devise a way to get them to say it, without them realize I've forgotten it...Usually, I can tell when someone is having a brain fart to remember my name, and I help them out...But I must be a good ass liar, cause nobody never helps me out, lol...

#2

LOL, I surely know what you mean man. I have met so many people and I remember their faces but the names almost always elude me. I do the same as you, I will avoid saying there name but being at uni someone who knows you and doesnt know so I end up introducing them and yeah its happened so many times that the other person doesnt remember my name either but yeah its all in good fun.

But sometimes its like I walk away from them and then half an hour later i remember their name.

#3

I'm a master of the BS meet and greet. I can't count the number of times this has happened to me.

It's good to know it's not early onset senility.

#4

If you can play it well then play it. Sometimes I do a good job at that and others times it is way too obvious that I don't remember their name. Just do all you can to remember. Look around you, try to bring up common friends, etc just to try and remember. That's all you need to do. It's better to use their name as you're saying good bye than to never say it

#5

If you just fess up by saying, "You know I remember the time when we almost got arrested climbing the smoke stacks on your 21st birthday,<insert your own appropriate recollection involving the individual> but I must have killed the brain cell that was storing your name cause I am drawing a blank"

Bot · #6

LOL That's actually not a bad idea, man. More than likely the person would laugh and tell you.

Lost Ghost · #7

Yeah.....while I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist and am confident in my ablility to forget a name and play it off......I'll most often just tell them straight out with a smile on my face with an expression of "oh man...how silly of me to forget something so trivial"

and they never seem to mind....