I have a problem...

I meet lots of people and they introduce themselves...

I try to remember all the names, but I am not always successful....

The problem is when you meet people, and you hear their names right away, you don't know whether you'll actually be friends or not, so you don't know whether to really learn their name, or whether it's not really necessary...

But then...after you talk with someone for months it seems silly to ask their name again... You know?

One woman was in one of the classes I took with Three-a. We saw each other every Friday for about a year... We liked each other. I didn't know her name... She wanted to do play dates and she was really nice, but I didn't know her name. I concocted this whole scheme to find out her name and it didn't work.

Sigh.

I finally learned her name without asking... It was good.

Now she's a friend in facebook.

Now, I have this problem again with someone in another class. I *think* MWH helped me figure out her name... She works where he works and I think through process of elimination in the company directory we determined her name. I'm now going to have to test out her name and see if she responds... I'll be sure to do it in a crowd and just yell _____i... If she's not named _____i, then I'll learn who is named _____i and we can go from there...

I'm pretty sure her name is _____i.

Have you ever not known the name of someone you should have known? What have you done?

Argh.