How long can you talk to someone without knowing their name?

[mud]

I have call forwarding on my business phone so when anyone calls that line it goes to my cell. The problem w/ this system is that all of the #'s that show up on my caller ID will be the company's main #.

So when Mr. Jvtbtjvbbuf calls me on my day off while I'm high as shit I have no way of looking up his # because the only one that shows up is the company line.

Now I could just ask him to repeat his name and look it up in the system but that doesn't work because everything is in his wife name.

But wait there's more! The # he gives up to call his wife was his daughters phone who never answers because fuck me she isn't going to answer an unknown #.

So anyway this has been going on now for three months and just by luck he called today and I managed to book an appointment on Monday despite not knowing their name.

[Meadow Skipper]

That’s pretty good. I was just going to say ‘all day.’

[iceman]

Years.

edit: i was late because I capitalized and punctuated.

[wyeaster]

years

[Buster Highmen]

22.7 miles

[wickstad]

I have call forwarding on my business phone so when anyone calls that line it goes to my cell. The problem w/ this system is that all of the #'s that show up on my caller ID will be the company's main #.

So when Mr. Jvtbtjvbbuf calls me on my day off while I'm high as shit I have no way of looking up his # because the only one that shows up is the company line.

Now I could just ask him to repeat his name and look it up in the system but that doesn't work because everything is in his wife name.

But wait there's more! The # he gives up to call his wife was his daughters phone who never answers because fuck me she isn't going to answer an unknown #.

So anyway this has been going on now for three months and just by luck he called today and I managed to book an appointment on Monday despite not knowing their name for two months now.

That is hilarious

[rideit]

I have 'talked' to people on here without knowing their names since forever!

[KQ]

Years. I've done it for years. So many of us - I'm in good company!

I'm horrible with names. Sometimes I wonder if I don't have a mild case of Prosopagnosia.

[muted]

Definitely years.

When he walks in, introduce him to a friend, saying, this my my friend XXXX. Your client will say, "nice to meet you, I'm XXXX"

I do this all the time and I think it's from part of a Seinfeld episode, right? Mulva?

[wickstad]

I have 'talked' to people on here without knowing their names since forever!

. Yes but I think this is a case where this person knows the tgr guy, and expects that the tgr guy knows who he is. I’ve gotten phone calls like this before in where my brain is scrambling all the fighter jets to figure out who I’m talking to. Doesn’t help when you know multiple people with the same name. “Oh, this is Juan...”

[XXX-er]

what you do is say what is your name again and when he tells you say "Oh I know your first name of course its your second name I was unsure of "

[Lahar]

Years... I suck w/ names. Only way I survive with my business is to immediately enter a work contact into my phone w/ name and whatever photo I can dig up online of them. That way when they call I can put a face to the name, and answer the phone like I know who's calling. As a result, their name finally gets stored in the grey matter...

[KQ]

Worse yet is when you associate the wrong name with a person. I've done that with this one gal for a long time - she reminds me of someone else and when I met her that is the first thing I thought and now the wrong name is stuck in my head.

Rode the elevator with a guy who worked in my building and called me by the wrong name for years. Can't remember what he called me - think it was "Susan." After a while it was too late to correct him so I just let it go and would I answer to it which would elicit strange looks from any friends who happened to be in the elevator with me.

[wyeaster]

i basically panic meeting new people and my brain goes blank except for white noise when they tell me their names. it sucks.

[Core Shot]

His name is Mud

[m2711c]

Names matter dude.

Like, this one time, I was trying to get some weed, right?

So I call a friend of mine and I say, “I need some weed man, you got any?

He was like “let me see what I can do for you, man. I’ll call you back when I get some luck.“

Sounds like I’m in business.

So a little later can I get a call from another friend of mine saying “you got any weed man?”. I said to him, “I’m waiting on some right now.” “I’ll call you back when I get lucky.”

Then, I get a callback from the first dude saying “I got a line on your weed dude, it should be here anytime soon.“

Well guess what man?...., dude never had no weed, because the guy he was gonna the weed from called me to get weed from me and I told him I was waiting on some weed from some other guy, and when I got that weed, I would go ahead and give him some weed so he could sell that weed to the person he needed to. I did not know that the person he was selling the weed to was the same person that I was hoping to get the weed from.

Life would be a lot simpler if everybody just used their names to begin with.



Now, to avoid confusion, I just have the guys call me “Heisenberg“.


Works for me....

[Meadow Skipper]

I’m bad with names, but I never remember faces.

[iceman]

Dave's not here, man.

[mud]

35 years at the same ski area talking to dudes who’s names i may never know. most days a, ‘hey dude, yesterday was nice’ is really all that is necessary.

I'm not talking about doing a head nod on the hill or getting drunk w/ distant relatives on Thanksgiving.

These motherfuckers are coming in on Monday and expect me to know what's going on.

Not a big deal once they check in and I can pull up their records but doesn't give me much time to make sure the #'s are good.

[CascadeLuke]

I fall back on the wife introduction program in social situations when I forget. — Don’t count this against me if we meet

[TurxSki]

Wow. Just wow.
These are human beings, right?
Same as you.
With all the same foibles.
Like forgetting names....
Just own up to it.
Sheesh.

Names matter dude...

Doesn't that seem ironic to anyone else?
Mr anonymous random jumble here?
Or is that the point?


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[iceman]

oh shit I tell people right off I won't remember their name until about the third time we meet, they seem okay with it as far as I can tell

[::: :::]

Where’s LVS?
I’m sorry, man

[skiballs]

I'm not talking about doing a head nod on the hill or getting drunk w/ distant relatives on Thanksgiving.

These motherfuckers are coming in on Monday and expect me to know what's going on.

Not a big deal once they check in and I can pull up their records but doesn't give me much time to make sure the #'s are good.

Are you a funeral director?

[riser4]

Wow. Just wow.
These are human beings, right?
Same as you.
With all the same foibles.
Like forgetting names....
Just own up to it.
Sheesh.

Well, that's all well and good. Except some people get really uptight about it. The parents of one of my daughter's friends still won't speak to us because of it. I can't remember faces for shit. The mom took it really badly. And then I made it worse. To me she looks exactly like someone else we know. My wife says they look nothing alike. Anyway, I saw the mom in the supermarket and said hi. When she gave me an icy stair, I realized it wasn't the other person, who is really friendly, but i still couldn't place her as the mom. So I said that you're not who I thought you were, sorry. Apparently that was the ultimate insult. It doesn't help that the mom changes her hair and clothing style often. I need that consistency to recognize people unless I see them a lot. And or hear their voice. Tattoos help the process. Or a hat. Always wear the same hat.