Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy for April 11, 2022

where I live, we would call each other (specially guys) with titles like dude, man and such (equivalents to those of course) aaaaaand yup, lot of times I wouldn’t remember the names and such calling names are a saver !!

You gotta do better than that, uh… Hula?

I am not good at remembering names. It is why I like the Japanese introducing themselves with a business card. You note something on the back to remind you. I do try. To be honest Huda should not be that hard. Something I like to do is google the name. I find out how to pronounce it. also what country and cultural origin. Always interesting to find out. And This old guy may learn something.

Well, you might say that to Huda, ‘Jane Smith’ is foreign.

Honestly, I find the unusual names easier to recall. When someone has a common name, I think “Jane? No, it couldn’t be that easy.” I met Esmeralda and her husband Tom. Guess whose name I forgot? Yep. Tom’s.

In real life, I have memory-related issues due to head trauma. Part of this is that I will almost immediately forget new names unless I either write them down or have some reason to link the name and the face. I’ve had to do a lot of apologizing on the social level for this.

Karen. Or, maybe Caren

this is a rerun from dec. 21