whats your name again?
By se7enthbird
@se7enthbird (8307)
Philippines
September 7, 2010 8:53pm CST
are you good with names? do you remember their face and their names? are you not shy to ask their names again if you forgot? my wife is not shy to ask whats your name again? i leave that up to her har har har. sometimes when someone talk to me i try to recall what is the name of that person but sometimes nothing comes in my mind. hmmm i know i am getting old 
. so what do you do if you cant remember their names, do you ask it again?
. so what do you do if you cant remember their names, do you ask it again?2 people like this
15 responses
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
8 Sep 10
I am generally very good at remembering names. i always have been. if I run into someone and I automatically recognize the face but can't place the name i get discouraged. i won't rest until I can put the name and face together.@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
14 Sep 10
har har har yes feel ashamed too when people remembers my name and i can not recall what their name is. so sometimes continuous taking or excusing myself to cut the chat short. i dont like them to see that i am digging up in the back of my mind what their name is. thanks a lot for the response and welcome to the wonderful world of mylot.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
14 Sep 10
sorry that is not my comment for you, internet slow and i have a few wiondows open while doing mylot. this is my comment for you sender: that is my wife's trait she will be very disturbed the whole day until she figures out the name of that person. so to save her on thinking the whole day she would rather ask the person right away of his/her name than spending the whole day thinking. thanks a lot for the response.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
15 Sep 10
now that is a very lucky thing, if someone will mention the name while you are trying to remember it. but true sometimes when this happens you wish that you can recall their names to save you the embarrassment. too many names and to many faces to remember sometimes it gets jumbled inside my memory chip har har har. thanks a lot for the response.
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
8 Sep 10
I have always been better at remembering faces rather than names. I will see a person who knows me very well, and the face is hitting on everything, but for the life of me I cannot figure out their name or where I know them from. I try for a minute to come up with it myself, but rather than further embarrass myself by pretending to know who they are and being wrong, I will ask them outright what their name is.
This just happened with my kids aunts a couple of weeks ago. It had been so long since I'd seen them that when I saw them, all I could place was the face!!!
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
15 Sep 10
you are like my wife, she saves the embarrassment so she ask the name outright. that would save her time and depression on thinking what that person name is. TRUE! this applies with me too when cousins or nieces or nephews specially when they live far from us or if they live abroad it would be hard for me to get their names. i even call my niece Carry but her name is Collene, har har har stupid me. thanks a lot for the response.
@ruthhazel (213)
• Philippines
9 Sep 10
i am not good in remembering their names and faces. there are some people i can't remember their name but i remember their faces. i'm not shy to ask their names again, it is more ashame if you not know their names. :)
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
15 Sep 10
good attitude on asking their names again. my wife does that too. saving her self on spending the whole day thinking of their names. for her she would rather ask again than talking to someone and acting as if they remember. thanks a lot for the response and welcome to mylot hope to see you more here.
@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
8 Sep 10
I am actually terrible with names. I was a public school teacher and I had an awful time trying to remember my student's names. I would learn a few pretty quick but some would take a long time. I finally would get most of them after hearing the other students call out to them and things like that.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
14 Sep 10
har har har that was funny mac. i expect teachers are good on remembering names but of course there is always exception to every rule. when you here a name called a few times i guess you can remember that easily and when a student is intelligent you remember that as well, and of course that naughty ones too. but some students just fades at the background. thanks a lot for the response.
@richard03 (133)
• Philippines
9 Sep 10
yup, there are sometimes that you meet a person that you didn't see for along time and you are talking to him/her and in your mind your thinking if what is his name, funny right?. and then you already said goodbyes and still your brain is bothered and still trying to remember his name, then there comes a time it will just pop out, Oh that's his name...LOL, PEAce!!!
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
15 Sep 10
welcome to the wonderful world of mylot richard. it is funny when you are talking for almost 20 minutes but still you can not recall his/her name. and when you reach home you are still thinking of the name. har har har. it makes you thinking of it the whole day. thanks a lot for the response and good luck here at mylot. hope to see you more.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Sep 10
se7enthbird I am awful with names so I ask the name then repeat it several times, shake hands using the name again, also I try to connect it to something I can remember like Alice Smith so I think Alice in Wonderland a book I loved, and my grandad was a blacksmith so Alice Smith and hopefully the next time I meet her I can recall the name. So sometimes if the name is harder like Robert Grassley I have to think about grass with a lei and my son Robbie close to Robert. this usually does work for me.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
8 Sep 10
now that is a good way to remember. all you need to think is pattern their names in something you can remember very well. i hope this works for me, but sometimes people in our country use nicknames that is very far from their real names. like my wife's friend her name is michelle but friends call her xanthe. i dont know where that xanthe name came from har har har. this kind of things made it more difficult. thanks a lot for the response
@amrddy (215)
• Philippines
8 Sep 10
Hi se7entbirth,
Sometimes we can't help but forget the names of the person we are talking to but eventually it will come to us. When it is just the two of you it is not hard to hide not knowing her name, but if you are with a friend that is another story because then you wouldn't be able to introduce her or him. Best way is to ask the name, saying you are getting old. Happens to me a lot of times.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
hi amrddy, my wife likes your avatar she loves mulan too. back to the discussion, true that we can not help ourselves sometimes to forget names specially when we havent seen that person for a long time. its hard to dig deep into our brains just to remember a name. thats hard to do and you become tongue tied and frozen har har har. thanks a lot to the response.
@onichboy (134)
• Thailand
8 Sep 10
Honestly I am really not good in names most of the time, and sometimes I get ashamed as well asking names repeatedly. But, I try as much as possible to ask so that I can make a working relationship with a person especially at work. It makes two people comfortable talking to each other which is true when handling situations that are too complicated.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
14 Sep 10
har har har yes feel ashamed too when people remembers my name and i can not recall what their name is. so sometimes continuous taking or excusing myself to cut the chat short. i dont like them to see that i am digging up in the back of my mind what their name is. thanks a lot for the response and welcome to the wonderful world of mylot.
@Chocoholic (85)
• Indonesia
8 Sep 10
I'm not really good with names. Sometimes I just recognize his/her face but I don't remember the name. I ask it again of course.
@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
8 Sep 10
No, I'm not good at remembering names. If someone greets me and i'm not sure who he is I just smile and return the gesture. Sometimes I hate myself for not remembering names but it's something I can't control so let it be that way and try to be polite as possible.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
that is what i feel, i hate myself when ever i can not remember their names and they can remember mine. har har har. though i can say that i smile back too. but my wife can not have peace unless she remembers name so she would rather ask the name than just thinking of it the whole day. thanks a lot for the response
@ktmatunog (912)
• Philippines
8 Sep 10
Before I am good in names. But the people in our world will grow and increase in number and I think my memory is enough for it. But the longer it time separates us from one another, we forget the names. I am a shy type of person. So I am really ashame and I can't really ask that question of yours - "What is your name again?". If I met someone on the road and forgot his/her name, I'll simply say nothing and I'll try to remember it as much as I could.haha But if I don't totally remember it, I'll ask another friend of mine what's his/her name. In that way I will not be embarrassed in front of the person.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
12 Sep 10
har har har, now that is a good response. in my case i am getting older and all the names in my memory just compress together than i can no longer locate some of it. i guess when you get older your brain no longer upgrades. it remains to be in pentium 1 har har har. thanks a lot for the response and have a great weekend.
@theplanner (298)
• Philippines
15 Sep 10
Sad to say I'm not good at remembering names and faces. I'm still young but it's as if I already have a memory gap. My husband often gets annoyed at me when he introduces me to some of his friends and then when we meet one of them again at malls or anywhere, I'll ask him discreetly who that friend is. I really don't know why I'm like this.
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
8 Sep 10
I am not also good in names that I keep on asking every now and then. Sometimes I am shy to ask but sometimes I am making it.
