Remembering people

[nevermore]

Yeah, I'm not so sure this is a good idea. I've stopped doing it.

On one level, it's "I'm going to be self-deprecatorily polite and warn you about my amusing little foibles".

On another, it's "I don't give a fuck about you, and you know what? I'm going to tell you that, right from the off."

I now save this for when I really, really want them to know the latter.

Eh, I don't do it professionally, and frankly, I just don't give a fuck otherwise. They might as well know that about me from the start.

On the other hand, most people seem to be relieved and commiserate. Sometimes it actually leads to a conversation instead of me just wandering off having already forgotten the name.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I'm great with faces and terrible with names. And it's gotten really really bad too. My husband knows that if i don't introduce him to someone we happen to meet up with while we're out it's because i can't, for the life of me, remember the person's name. I've even forgotten the names of people i have known for years. I just completely blank out. It is really scary and VERY frustrating.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I can remember faces but not names,I started my new Job in April but there are still people who's names I can't remember.