1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met?
2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name?
3: What is your earliest memory?
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you?
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home?
My Answers:
1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? I am terrible at remembering names, always have been.
2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? I had worked at the ABA for a couple of years, and I was introducing people at a conference, and I got stuck, I looked at her, she looked at me, she broke the silence with "it is Leslie." I am surprised I remember her name today.
3: What is your earliest memory? The green bedroom in the first house on the farm, and being very sick.
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you? I was speaking at a conference on grandparents raising grandchildren at the Holiday Inn North in Lexington Kentucky, when the planes hit the World Trade Center, it was a surreal day.
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? Nope - long gone.
Please share your answers and memories in the comments.
1. Remembering names is not a skill I've ever acquired.
ReplyDelete2. I can't remember who it was or their name, but the realisation later that I've called someone by the wrong name.
3. I don't remember being tripped by the dog and breaking my leg as I had just turned four, but I remember the heavy plaster on my leg and walking by dragging the my plaster clad leg sideways.
4. Undoubtable late evening here on September the 12th when the WTC attacks happened.
5. Party line, 41W, one short ring, two long rings.
Don't trip over the cat.
Delete1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? Terrible. In that regard, my brain is like a sieve.
ReplyDelete2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? Nothing's funny about it. It's just embarrassing but I notice that many new people will forget my name too which is surprising as I am simply called The Great Pudding of Yorkshire.
3: What is your earliest memory? Probably of climbing our carpeted stairs on the day that my late brother Simon was born - or is this "memory" a kind of imagining?
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you? Watching live - the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton in "The Lotus Room" where I lived in Bangkok for six months. There was a huge mural on the main wall of a lotus pond in northern Thailand.
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? Yes..."Leven 272". You had to say that when you picked up the handset.
You are well traveled, and it shows.
Delete1. I'm usually pretty good at it.
ReplyDelete2. I can't remember a funny time.
3. Playpen with (and at) the next door neighbor kid who was my age. His mother was folding laundry.
4. The first moon landing. I remember going to the tv and turning the channels because it seemed boring (I was almost 6) and each of the THREE channels showed the exact same thing.
5. I do. And my grandparent's phone numbers too.
I remember staying up late on the night of the first moon walk, laying on the living room floor watching on the wonder of all wonders, COLOR television. My parents bought a new television for the event.
Delete1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? i'm pretty good at it.
ReplyDelete2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? I used to call a girl I worked with 'Beth,' and I called her that for months. One morning, I said, 'Hey Beth,' and she said, 'My name is Heather.' All I could think to say was, 'Oh, that's pretty.'
3: What is your earliest memory? I think it was a long red box that I used to play in, which turned out to be a trailer my partnets lived in while stationed in Mississippi.
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you? Sitting in the living room and wathcing the moon landing with my family; we were glued to the set.
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? 916-725-3478 ... Citrus Heights California!
I am like an old dog, I will respond to anything as long as it is said in a kind tone of voice - or has a treat along with it.
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ReplyDelete1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? It’s a crap shoot. I have notes on my iPhone.
2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? A friend’s new boyfriend was named Ken. He was initially known among us as her Bit Of Stuff. When others got to know him, they began to refer to him as Bag Of Shit instead, which shortened to Boss. I would forget his name and call him Boss. He thought is was a compliment.
3: What is your earliest memory? Under 2 years old. My sister was in the tub and my mother knocked a hand mirror off the shelf and the handle cracked. My mother kept it and years later I told her how it broke. She didn’t remember.
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you?
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? Lincoln 1-2039. When the exchanges had names!
I will have to remember that is anyone calls me boss.
Delete1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? If it's a single introduction, it's 50/50. If we have a conversation, it's good.
ReplyDelete2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? When I was teaching 8th gradeI learned 125 names the first week of classes. All was going well until we changed the seating chart and I drew a blank on the young male's name. I looked at him and said, "You...Snicklefritz." Well, you can imagine all the laughter that ensued.
3: What is your earliest memory? Living next door to my cousins in Danvers, IL, when I was 3 and playing in our little swimming in the backyard.
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you? I was in 1st grade when JFK was assassinated. I remember walking home from school and my mom meeting me on the sidewalk in tears.
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? I remember a couple: MU (Murray) 3-0669 and 399-6870. That was when the 513 area code changed to 937.
I just saw on the news that the Berlin Wall came down 36 years ago today.
Delete1: How are you at remembering the name of someone you have just met? Terrible. I have always been terrible with names.
ReplyDelete2: What is the funniest story of you forgetting someone's name? Mine is very similar to your story but I don't recall how I got out of it.
3: What is your earliest memory? I remember my mother making me hot chocolate and serving it in a pretty little pitcher and a tiny cup and saucer. I was probably 2 or 3.
4: What memory of a historical event is tied to a location or activity for you? On the morning of 9/11 I had just flown into San Francisco the night before. I was working there at the time. I remember waking up to the news in a state of confusion.
5: Do you remember the phone number from your childhood home? I do remember it and I use it in passwords and combinations still today.
I was ten years old before we had a phone installed.
Delete#5 -- My childhood home's phone number was 365-W. We were on a party line with the next door neighbours. Their number was 365-J. The phone numbers were so short because we had to rely on actual telephone operators (all women, of course) who manually connected people when you picked up the receiver and told them the number you wanted.
ReplyDeleteWe thought phone operators would always be a part of life. "0" was for operator.
Delete1. I have trouble with this.
ReplyDelete2. Can't remember?!
3. I think I remember falling from my high chair and cutting my finger but I'm not sure if it is a real memory.
4. I was in 8th grade music class when they announced that JFK had been shot and killed. Many of us burst into tears.
5. Mayfair-7-6012
1.Not good anymore which is why I refrain from meeting people.
ReplyDelete2. I can't think of one.
3. I remember having earaches and my mother holding me in her arms but I have no idea how young I was.
4. Probably the JFK assassination. I was working for radio/tv stations in North Dakota as the second guy in a two-man newsroom. The news director figured the network would cover everything and left for a previously scheduled trip to Minnesota. I was in charge for days. Then on Sunday morning I finally was home and watching the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald on tv. I called out to my wife to come and watch because someone might shoot him since they were giving him a perp walk. Seconds later it happened.
5. Our home number was 63-J and the one at the grain elevator that my father managed was 77. For some reason I've never forgotten them.
I am good at remembering people's names, because I stop and consciously work some way into remembering the name before proceeding, including saying the name a few times in conversation.
ReplyDeleteMy parents kept the childhood telephone number, which is now used by Brother #4. Thus it has been in the family since the 60s. Can you imagine?