you are out and about or at a party and you think you know someone, cuz they look like them. You go up to them and then say hi and/or ask aren't you ??? and they are not (you realize this of course as you are saying it...seeing the non-recognition in their eyes) Or even worse is when they sort of look like them but not exactly, but they are an accquaintence and it could be them. And then when you do the above you feel an even worse of an ass because of couse THAT'S NOT THEM.

I was at an art opening this evening and I see someone that looks like a prince fan I know...dresses the same, mannerisms everything. There was this piece that was obviously inspired by Prince...and so them I solidified the connection. SO WRONG was I. As soon as I asked aren't you ??? I knew.

I have done this on more than one occasion and it always leaves me off guard. I hate it when that happens.

superspaceboy said:

happens to me too and i always feel like a dumbass

how about calling someone by the wrong name?

Yeah, i'm bad, i usually remember people by face better than namez!!! It'z a worry and pretty embarrasing, recently i had this chick who used 2 sit near me in some classses text message me to come to her birthday!! Now, my simcard has been stuffed, so i lost absolutey all numbers on dat card for my mobile fonez (celly), so i had to ask 'sorry i remember faces better, can you jog my memory and tell me who you are?' i felt so rude, and i thought, how bad is dat, i could've made her felt like she was forgettable or somethin like dat!! Not nice Need to better myself at these thingz!! I feel such a pang of guilt

i was making introductions at my own birthday party and couldn't remember one of the girls names...

i wouldn't have called her my best friend by any means, but my god! she was a friend at my birthday party and i totally blanked on her name...

won't ever forget it now

I'm just as bad

Ocean said:

So am I errrrr..... What's your name again?

althom said:

I'm hoping u are going to forget at least half my first name

Ocean said:

Arrrrrhhhhh!!! It's coming back to me now!

althom said:

Over my dead body

Somebody waving at you and you wave back, only to find out they were waving at someone behind you.

That's embarrassing too.

HamsterHuey said:

I hate dat!!!

HE:"Hey, how are you? You remember me?"

ME:"Sure"(I have no idea who he is)

HE:"Oh,sorry. It's your brother I know"

ME:

HamsterHuey said:

that happened to me just yesterday.

Last year i was walking through the hospital where i worked and recognized a man who was walking towards me.....

he put his head down and tried to hide his face so i thought it must be an ex boyfriend or something, as he came closer i thinking i knew him said very loudly...

"Don't say Hello then be like that" he then raised his head and i realised it was actually the runner up in the UK's pop idol contest it wasn't that i knew him i had seen him on TV my work mate was in hysterics as she had realised before me who he was

lollyp0p said:

was he getting a sex-change?

IstenSzek said:

No that was the guy in the garage but thats another story

Once at a club my friend saw a guy he had been with and had seen out a few times. He didn't want to seem rude so when we approached...so he did the Hi thing and chatted. To save him I got an idea ..After a few seconds I simply introduced myself and we got his name that way.

Of couse this doesn't help if you're by yourself.

My thing is when I see someone and am so sure I know them that I go up to them and say something like "hey motherf*&er" and it's not them. All this time I'm grabbing them by the shoulders or something. Yeah that happened to me at the gym once. Assault with a deadly potty mouth.

My best friend has been a D.J. for about 20 years throughout that time he meets tons of people. I've been out at the store and someone will come up to him and say "Hey Frank how have you been?" Frank says "Oh my God, how have you been? You look so good!" He goes on for about 15 minutes with this person. When he says his goodbyes I turn to him and say "You don't know who that is, right." He says. "No."


Miguel

I was at my best friend's going-away party recently. This woman I hadn't seen in so long was across the room (or so I thought). She was talking to some people, but I hollered her name across the room.

But it gets worse. When she showed no recognition that someone had called her name, I continued to yell it, waving and rolling my eyes in mock-frustration that she was being so deaf. I didn't get it until people starting noticing that I was yelling a name that didn't belong to anybody in the room.

Last year I was having some drinks with friends when I suddenly see a man of about 50 years sitting at a table. I thought I knew him, but I couldn't figure out who he was. He smiled, rose to his feet and I thought he had left.

One hour later I'm really getting drunk, and I notice this man again. So I walk up to him (almost staggering) and I took him by his shoulders and said 'well sorry, I'm a bit drunk... I know your face but I can't remember who you are.'

(It was a jazzclub with many drunk people, so I thought he would be some kind of semi-artist that had never succeeded in life and that had told me his miserable life-story)

He said 'well I'm your professor at university I guess. I've seen you sitting in my classroom last week...'

MarieLouise said:

oh god i soo dont feel bad about calling dook by the wrong name..



were is he anyways?

HamsterHuey said:

That's is embarrassing. I wouldn't be embarassed if I were talking to someone and they weren't who I though they were. It happens.