forgetting peole's name. too shy to ask. have u experienced this?

Hi simonelee, I am always forgetting peoples names when they are acquaintances rather than friends, yet they always seem to remember mine. I don't guess and just try not to use it, it's not that I'm shy to ask I just think it would appear rude when they've rememberd by name to not remember theirs. I spent one whole year calling one man Vassilly until one day he finally asked me why I call him Vassilli when his name is Panioytis, and then get further confused when other people call him Takis. So best to bluff it out and then ask someone else to remind me I find.

Hi Simolee! Great to have found you here... Anyways, This was happening with me on a somewhat regular basis... :( When I was working as a computer trainer at one of the private organizations here, they gave me around 4 newly started batches. It took me time to get all the names of the 75 odd students in my head and somewhat more time in identifying the students with their names. Till then it was all looking like a misery to me. I would always end up calling someone by another name till i found a way out. I started calling them one by one to my chamber and on the pretext of discussing something or the other and spend the time in remembering their name and relating it with their face. Initially it was odd but gradually it became a habit and I was happy that by the end of the 1st month I could get to each of them by their names

So far its a No..i always do remember people with their face and name..ehhee! Even its not their full name but their nickname i do still remember.

This happens to me a lot of times because I'm really not that good in names, especially if I had only met them a few days or seldom see them. In that case I just talk to them normally without saying their name, continuing the conversation and making him/her comfortable, after that I'll just ask my friends who he/she is. Happy mylotting!

Absolutely,just last sunday i have experienced this awkward thing but fortunately i know the name of this forgetting people. last sunday when i bought some necessary stuff in the supermarket,a lady patted my shoulder in the back of myself.she smiled to me and begin to talk.i keep thing what she is,but i know nothing about her.so i wanted to learn more about her and asked the question:Hi,look at you,you're brillant.how long have we seen each other since last time?And she said it's about three years after talking in the graduation ceremony.And then i asked:what do you do after graduation? I keep asking questions and finally i remember what exactly she is. so when we're too awkward to ask the person's name,maybe you can try the way what I do:) and best wishes.

yes it happens sometime.. And when it happen to me all i have to do is find some hint (the face, the way he or she talking, ect) that can remember me.

That has happened to me quite a lot and yes, it is awkward to ask them their names when they know my name very well. Knowing them but, simply unable to recall their names. After meeting them, I would try to recall their names. I would try to remember similar people that I and that person might know and eventually hope that I do get to recall everything. When they start off with the greeting, I would usually reply with the usual, "Hey! Its been a long time. How have you been?" and probably, they would mention something that would help me remember their names. (^_^")

Hahaha I've had that happen and sometimes its like oh man who is this and then it dawns on you. But sometimes you walk away and still have no idea. Sometimes though I must make a weird face because they will be like you dont remember me do you. And I will be like no I'm sorry where have we met. Whats worse is when I used to hook up with random guys I had just met online and they would come over and we would be in the middle of something and I wouldnt be able to rememebr there name. They never got mad they would just tell me again what it was lol.

I have had this too. It can be so awkward. I always try to stall and look for hints. Sometimes I just avoid using names and try to pretend I do know to save face. I am always to shy to just ask! :-)

This has happened lots of time and it is very embarrassing situation.yaa i felt shy to ask for the name. But i apologies for my bad memory and ask for a name with a promise that i wont forget again. and really i remember it always.

ya ofcourse i have had this problem i really have a bad memory mostly i will start like i like have a bad memory let me guess your name and i will guess some standard names to get his/her name

yes this happened to me in the 7th grade i did not know my friend's name which later he became my best friend i didnt want to ask his name too weird to do so i waited until half a year until i found his name through another friend it was very relieving. if you dont know their name you can get away by calling then hey if you knew them for a while

Yeah..its happen all the time this crazy mind of mine.. Its worse in my part cause I can't remember names and face..that my liabilities..lolz Some people say I'm snobbish, But actually I can't really remember them..Until your really really a close friend..When I was in elementary to college I always mistook somebody else to be someone I know..Now I change tactic..If you know me greet me and I will greet you..lolz..Its safer for me that way..And I don't mind branded as snobbish. Cause for me it more embarrassing if I greet and talk to somebody only to realize that I'm talking to a complete stranger..lolz

many incidents happened to me in past, i was working as an assistant manager in a international call center.. i used to take interviews and i was pretty famous there.. when i go out suddenly those candidates come to me and speak to me since they remember me.. but my bad memory doesn't cooperate with them.. i don't remember their names and i get embarrassed in those situations.. since now im working online at home.. those problems has been reduced..

Yes, it is embarrassing to forget people's name. But I try to pretend that nothing goes wrong. And I just say hi and perhaps nobody realizes that I don't remember the name. I love China

This often happened to me,when someone call me but i cann't remind of him soon,I am too shy to ask who he is,so i listen to him and try to remind something from what he said.

This has happened to me a lot lately, I moved from England to America and so everyone I've met is relatively new to me. So often I have met someone through my church, through a friend, or maybe they were a customer somewhere I worked part time, or whatever - and they greet me like an old friend somewhere and I do not have a clue! Sometimes it comes back to me, sometimes it doesn't, but I think I have managed to bluff my way through most! If it is customer from the coffee shop I used to work in, usually I forget their name but remember their drink, so its like them - 'Hi Ruth' Me - 'ah, double soy latte with a shot of caramel, how ARE you?'! lol

Yes, I have experienced a similar situation. The face looked familiar but i just couldn't figure out her name. I was throwing "leading" questions so that I can get clues as to her name. Sometimes, I remembered it instantly but there were same occasions that I didn't. I silently "surrendered" to my sleuthing efforts of finding out her name and decided to ask her name by telling her that this age might have rendered me very forgetful already that I forgot her name. It always works and I am supplied with a name! lol

ya i too have been in this embarrassing situation..once it so happened that a guy came walking by and started chatting with me..he was like"hey how u doing? n what r you up to these days??" n he was behaving so friendly to me n i knew him by face but i didn't remember his name..n he was calling me by my name...and i didn't know what to do???but in such cases most of the times i directly ask them their name n ask them to excuse me for the same

It really happens to me.I met a freind once when I was having dinner.She saw me and came over to talk with me.She looked so familiar ,but I just can't remember whom she was.It was so embarrassing.I hope it won't happen again .