What's in a name?

Yes, it happens to me all the time. I do upholstery and I have had lots of customers in 32 years...hard to remember names...but usually I will remember faces. I dread when other people come up to me and then I would feel obligated to introduce them...sometimes I can't remember names...how embarrassing. As we get older, it will happen more. We have so many things crammed into out heads that we have a hard time sorting it all out...I think sometimes I have Half Heimers....haha

I always remember a face but a name, no.I may even forget where I first sw you but I will remember your face.

One of my better qualities is remembering names. I don't forget first names, ever. I can run into someone that I haven't seen for 35 years or more and will always remember their name. Somehow I am able to do association with names and faces. I've been out of high school since the early 60's. I see many people from when I was a little girl, teen years or high school and still remember their names. Most often the person I am talking with doesn't recall my face but does the name once I explain my maiden name. Do get all kinds of responses that people are amazed that I remembered them. Can't always recall what I did yesterday or the day before...lol

It happened at a wedding recently. I have only met my husband's aunt twice and it had been awhile since I had last seen her. She just started talking to me. I had to ask my husband afterward who she was and I was like oh yeah. I am not good with faces until I have seen them on a regular basis.

LOL yeah jill! this has happened to me before. a few times. ^__^;; i don't really have a good memory and sometimes it embarrasses me a lot. LOL i can't exactly remember the time when i have forgotten a person and the next time i met her, i didn't remember her and took me a lot of time to remember her and it was actually after we had parted ways that i got to remember her. LOL there were a few times that i would see a person and we would say "hi" to each other, me thinking that the face is familiar and even without really knowing who it is would wave back, and then i would ask my friends to help me remember who the person was and what was his/her name. ^__^;;

My memory is not that great either. There are many people who have crossed my path or whom I have at one time or another been acquainted with, but quite often, when I bump into them later in life, I just can't place a name to the face. It can be embarrassing sometimes, especially if the other person can rattle off your name and you can't reciprocate the same way. Then there are those times where I can recall the face, but I can't for the life of me place that person in the right setting - was he an ex-colleague, ex-university or ex-college friend or someone whom I knew when I was in the Navy? I am not that young anymore, so maybe people can understand if my memory fails me at times.

Yes, it has happened to me a lot. My parents, and both sides of my family are well known throughout the church community in Oklahoma, and I've been to so many churches and conventions it's not even funny. However, I didn't pay attention to anyone growing up. So when I went to college, a Christian college that my family is very familiar with, I had people coming up to me and greeting me by name. All I did was either smile and nod, or ask questions to see if I could figure out who they were. Most of the time I did OK. But there were a few times I flat out asked who they were. I mean, how am I supposed to remember all these faces I've seen growing up? Even the professors! I had no clue, lol.

HaHaHa, oh I'm sure this has happened to alot of people including me. I had some girl come up to me years ago who knew me in Jr. High School and unfortunately, I had NO idea who she was. I felt terrible and apologized but had to ask her what her name was....I said Oh yeh, now I remember. I didn't and till this day do not know who she is, haha. Isn't that awful? She knew everything about me and who I hung around, etc........I couldn't place her at all.

obviously,it happens to anyone sometime, doesn't it? i chaced upon my classmate of middle school,i cann't even remember her fice at that time.so i am so embarassed and dared not even look her face to face.lol