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 2006-05-30 3:39 PM |
Extreme Veteran  604   Northwest Ohio |  Subject: bizarre encounterOver the weekend, I ran into someone who said, "Is that you, Michele? It's me, Eric!" And I looked at him but had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA who he was, but I managed to hold a conversation with him for about 5 minutes: "Eric! Wow, it's been a long time! How are you? Do you live around here? Where are you working at now? How old are your kids now?" And all the while, I still had NO IDEA who I was talking to. But it was obvious that he knew me. (asked about my ex-husband by name, etc). Later in the day, it hit me---I had worked with this guy 20 YEARS AGO in another town. Wow. Now I'm wishing that I knew who he was when I was talking to him. I'd have asked better questions..... Have you ever run into someone from your past like that? |
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Runner | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Used to happen all the time. Then I moved away from where I knew people. Seriously, though, yes. I would go out, and inevitably someone would come up to me and start talking to me, asking how things were, what I was up to. No idea who they were. I got real good at doing intros without ever knowing the other person, and using nicknames like "Chief" and "Buddy". |
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Master 2287  Calgary, Alberta | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Ran into a girl here in Calgary that I knew from Montreal who I went to elementary school / high school with (I'm now 41). We passed each other in a food court at a mall and recognized each other instantly. We talked briefly at the mall chatting about what was happening in our lives and then went our separate ways. She called back a week later and invited my wife, kids and I over to her place to meet her husband (who also went to the same high school) and their kids. The evening dragged on when we ran out of stuff to talk about and I felt sorry for my wife who couldn't relate to much of the stories. |
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Champion 11641  Fairport, NY | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Not since I've moved from the Boston area, but it used to happen pretty frequently. If I can't remember after a couple minutes, I ask where I know them from. Do it nicely with a smile, be somewhat self-deprecating eg "I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time recalling where we know each other from". Most people will be understanding. |
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| Elite 2999 Hattiesburg, Mississippi | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Its happened a few times to me. Mostly at our National Convention. |
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| Master 1249 Lexington, Kentucky | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter At my wife's high school reunion there was a spouse (not me) who was messing with members of the reunion class, greeting them by name, reminiscing about old times. He would let his victim suffer for a couple of minutes then fess up = "I'm so-and-so's husband - you don't know me from Adam." I had to give him credit for finding a way to amuse himself at his wife's reunion. |
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| Expert 893 Livermore, Ca | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I feel sooo bad sometimes...... People will know me and I have no idea who they are. Or I know who they are but have no idea about there name. |
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| Elite 3022 Preferably on my bike somewhere | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I have managed to avoid this situation by being a complete a$$ho!* to everyone. That way, when someone recognizes me, they run the other direction.  |
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| Pro 4612 MA | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter D.Z. - 2006-05-30 8:47 PM I have managed to avoid this situation by being a complete a$$ho!* to everyone. That way, when someone recognizes me, they run the other direction. I can so verify that |
Saw D.Z. at the pool one morning and I decided to leave | 2006-05-30 8:38 PM in reply to: #438386 |
| Champion 11641 Fairport, NY | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter - 2006-05-30 5:47 PM marmadaddy - 2006-05-30 2:41 PM Not since I've moved from the Boston area, but it used to happen pretty frequently. If I can't remember after a couple minutes, I ask where I know them from. Do it nicely with a smile, be somewhat self-deprecating eg "I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time recalling where we know each other from". Most people will be understanding. If I meet you and you DON"T know who I am.. I am NOT going to understand!!!! That could never happen, perish the thought. As long as it's in a sushi bar after a tri and you're wearing red. |
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| Elite 2468 Racine, WI | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter We moved away from the town I was born in when I was 10, and moved back 5 years ago. For the first year people I didn't know came up to me constantly-I was related to most of them. |
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| Expert 789 Lake Forest, Illinois | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I am sooo bad with names. It happens to me pretty regularly. I will never forget a face, so I know I should know their name...I just don't. My wife has been a huge crutch in this area. If I haven't introduced her within the first ten seconds she will introduce herself so that the other person will say their name. Usually that prompts me to memorize it (at least for the rest of the day). The worst one happened a few years ago. My wife and I were in a furniture store and the sales manager comes walking over. I looked at her and thought "Oh my god, I have seen this woman naked and I don't remember her name...I'm an idiot." In my defense it had been about ten years since I had seen her last, but still... |
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| Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Usually it's one of my mom's Japanese friends. Bringing sushi back into the conversation I was at a sushi bar the other day when two little old Japanese women walked by where I was sitting at the sushi bar and said "Heddo Tony. You all grown up. You rook rike adult now!" And they both busted out laughing and talking in Japanese. I had NO IDEA who they were but of course I knew they were friends of my mom's. So I just said "Yeah how are you???" And they went on and on about how I should've married one of their daughters and how I'd have to say "heddo" to my mom. Crazy old Japanese ladies. I just, one day, want a supermodel to say "I know you and you were INCREDIBLE in bed that one time!!!" in front of my friends. That NEVER happens. |
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| Master 1862 San Mateo, CA | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter Bettylou - 2006-05-30 1:39 PM Have you ever run into someone from your past like that? Oh yes I run into people from my past, but even more strange - I run into people I don't know who proceed to call me Eric. |
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| Alpharetta, Georgia | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I was out at a club a few months ago and this guy is talking to me like he knows me. I must have had a look on my face that said "who the hell are you" because he said "it's me, Mikey, from high school." It was my prom date from senior year. (we were both king and queen, awwww). In high school he had wrestled at 112 pounds, and from the looks of it, he'd gained about 50 pounds since then, and shaved his head. Had no idea who he was until he said it. |
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| Champion 34263 Chicago | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter lisac957 - 2006-05-31 3:20 PM I was out at a club a few months ago and this guy is talking to me like he knows me. I must have had a look on my face that said "who the hell are you" because he said "it's me, Mikey, from high school." It was my prom date from senior year. (we were both king and queen, awwww). Overachiever.  <---- I was a big nerd in high school. I saw the prom queen from our high school, who wouldn't talk to me back then actually, at work when I was in college. I changed a bit and so did she. I didn't recognize her at all and when she told me her name I thought "How sad." But she gave me her number and told me to call her. I didn't but isn't it funny how things change like that? Edited by mr2tony 2006-05-31 3:36 PM |
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| Elite 2796 Texas | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter lisac957 - 2006-05-31 3:20 PM I was out at a club a few months ago and this guy is talking to me like he knows me. I must have had a look on my face that said "who the hell are you" because he said "it's me, Mikey, from high school." It was my prom date from senior year. (we were both king and queen, awwww). In high school he had wrestled at 112 pounds, and from the looks of it, he'd gained about 50 pounds since then, and shaved his head. Had no idea who he was until he said it. A 112 pound kid named Mikey was the prom king? Wow. Sounds like something out of a Anthony Michael What's-His-Name movie... |
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| Champion 5615 | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I was out shopping with my wife at a "discreet adult shopping location" when one of the employees comes running over to us yelling "Oh My God! It's you!". I'm frantically going through my mental rolodex figuring out who this woman was running up to us. Do I remember her, did I break up with her in a bad way, is this going to become really wierd? Actually, it was my wife's former roommate who she hadn't seen for years. Crisis averted. But talk about getting some really strange employee recommendations. |
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| Pro 4292 Evanston, | Subject: RE: bizarre encounter I get confused a lot b/c i've lived in a lot of places & have known a lot of people. Ugh. The cutest was this one guy i ran into during my senior year of college. He recognized me from high school; i didn't know who he was. Asked what I was doing now, and I told him, "well, i'm finishing up at _________." "That was YOU!" he exclaimed. "Short, and smart!" |
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