Has anyone said hi and started talking to you and you do not know them?

I'm 52. This happens to me alot. I do the same - act like I know they are. I feel embarrased to say I don't know who you are when they know who I am. Getting old sucks!

Yeap! Has happened to me before - but the person said "oh tell your parents said hi" - and I said "I'm so sorry but I forgot your name." They just sort of laugh it off at that point and re-introduce themselves. HAPPENS all the time these days since I've moved back to my hometown after college. I hope you figure it out soon. Cheers!

Hi MAllen, this seems to happen to me a lot, I know I know someone but don't remember where I know them from and then have to search my brain to try to come up with where I know them from. As a foreigner living here maybe people recognise me more quickly than I recognise them. If I am in the town outside my local area and other locals are there to it seems to happen all the time that people will come up and greet me. To this day I still have absolutely no idea who the woman was who gave me the double kiss greeting one day and knew my name, it was really embarrasing. I could never ask these people who they are as it would appear totally rude in this culture so I just chit chat with them a bit.

Did you ever start waving to someone, and then while your hand is mid-air, you find that they aren't the person you thought it was, so you kind of move your hand or do something with it, so it doesn't look like you were really waving to them...lol

It use to happen to me alot I worked at a McDonalds a long time so between customers and people who worked there I ended up meeting a lot of different people too many times they would remember me start talking to me and I would have no clue who they were i would just wing it till I made it out of there sometimes remembering who they were and other times who knows I actually have a funny story to tell about this happened to me one time my older sister and me had not seen each other in about 4 years well when I turned 18 I went to the city she lived in but was given the wrong address after looking all night I quit looking the next day i planned on going back to where I came from but before I would leave i planned on getting something to eat I went to the first place I seen and I was in a bad mood thinking of the trip home I was thinking of what to order when all of a sudden I heard what are you doing here i looked at this person who was waiting on me like she was a mad person still not recognizing her until she said straight out she was my sister I started laughing talk about strange huh what were the chances of that happening stranger things have happerned

I dunno but I usually get scared when something like this happens to me. As much as I try to converse and be friendly, the "stranger" always get the feel that I'm surprised with his/her saying hi. I guess I still follow what the adults tell me when I was a kid, which is "Never talk to strangers".

I've had people come up and start talking and obviously they can tell by the look on my face that I have no clue who they are and they tell me who they are then, thankfully! So I've never been in a spot (yet) where I've had to actually come out and ask someone or just walk away after a conversation and wonder who that was. People say my 2 sisters and I all look exactly alike and I will have people say hi or wave to me and I'm aware that they think I'm one of my sisters so I just say hi or wave right on back and then pass the message on to my sisters!

I'm a magnet for that. Complete strangers will come up to me and just start talking about personal things. It's been going on for so long that I'm used to it and it doesn't seem weird anymore unless I really stop and think about it. Like I just can't imagine myself stopping a complete stranger and going off about my personal life in detail. Only then does it seem a bit weird.

Hello friend, Yes, it has happened to me a lot of times and I must admit, I have done this to people as well, especially when there's a girl sitting around :) It is fine to start a conversation with Hi but I don't think it's fair to interrogate too much about the family in the first meeting itself.

it's has happened to me before but because i'm more shy and i just smile and walk away without talking , i'm not good in speak and i don't know what to talk to someone which i don't really know them

I have done that once or twice, and then I realize I have the wrong person!! I get embarrassed, but some people really look a lot like other people. Hmmm..as far as people coming up to me, yes, that's happend to me. They remember my name and stuff about me, but I can't remember them at all! I really feel bad. What I do, is just go along with them, and hope that eventually I remember who they are! Good day to you!

Yes. And sometimes i just go on with it.. kinda enjoy it. Sometimes it turns out to be friends or relatives from one of my family or friends.. but i do know when they were just mix me up with someone else, and this is the part when i enjoy it.

lol yeah that has happened to me. i get that alot. they come pu to me and start talking and i am looking at them like who are you. but sooner or later they figure out that it is not me who they know and they apologize and walk off. it is so funny. sometimes they confuse me for another friend that i have that we look alot alike in many ways. but its so funny to me for them to do something like that. i just smile and tell them oh no don't worry about it. well hope i answered your question... maria