There’s nothing worse than when you’re having a scatter-brained day and you come across a friend whose name you can’t remember at all
We’ve all got that one friend who we see around the odd time, but whose name we either can’t remember or we never learned properly in the first place.
This has all been added to thanks to the joys of Facebook and Twitter, which means that we now spend our days talking to people who we know only through the internet so that it turns out we actually only know their user name on a forum of some description.
That is, until the awkward moment we have to meet them in real life pops up and it turns out you can’t remember their name for the life of you.
They are the person you added after that night out that you don’t actually remember because it was three years ago, and even then they were only the friend of a friend. Or one of the lads from your football team who looks exactly like the other lad on your football team, and you’re sure his name is Chris…or is it Ciaran?
Sometimes you can get away with it by just saying “hey, what’s the story man?” and making yourself seem very nonchalant. If this works, they’ll walk away thinking that you’re uber-cool, and never aware that they didn’t know your name.
However, it can be a nightmare scenario when you’re stuck talking to them with another of your friends, and the awkward topic of having to do an introduction rears its ugly head.
So now you’re stuck with a tough decision, do you hazard a complete guess at their name and risk the embarrassing situation where they correct you, or do you just mumble a name?
The problem is here that you have to think on your feet, and if you’re not hydrated, that simply won’t work, so reach for a Deep River Rock and rehydrate to get your brain back in action.
Don’t panic, there’s a simple way out of this situation. Casually introduce your friend (whose name you know, hopefully) to the person whose name you can’t remember as if it was the most natural thing in the world. “Oh sorry, how rude of me, this is Bill” and hope that the other person introduces themselves, and your slick cover up masks the fact that you couldn’t have named them if your life depended on it.
Or you could go all Mrs. Doyle from Father Ted and just start guessing. Father Spodo Kimono? Father Jemima Racktool? Father Hiroshima Twinkie?
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