This scenario has been happening to me with startling frequency lately:
Person I don't recognize: "MO! Hey! So good to see you!"
Me: (mugging like mad) HEY! (I have no idea who you are) How are you?
PIDR: Great! What are you doing!
Me: (fumbling, trying to remember how I know this person) Oh, working! Improv! Novel-writing! And you? (here I am praying that this person says something that reminds me how I know them)
PIDR: Same stuff! (damn)
I really don't know what to do in this situation. I happen to be one of those people who is easily remembered. Conversely, I am that jerk who doesn't remember every person I've ever worked/performed/went to school with. I have started to just ask people to remind me their names, because I don't fucking remember anyone's name unless you and I had some big major friendship or war story moment. If you took classes with Shana three years ago and met me after a GGG show, and you remember me, then ????.
Last night it was with someone I worked with FOUR YEARS ago, who I had neither seen nor thought about in those four years, and I remembered who she was as she walked away. Arrgh.
If you can advise me on how to gracefully handle these sticky social situations, I need the help.
Posted by Zerd at December 8, 2007 12:56 PM