25 Genius And Questionable Ways People Tried To Find Out Someone’s Name After Forgetting It, As Shared In This Viral Twitter Thread

Gonna steal this for future use.

Works perfectly!!!

nods. i do something very similar. i've always been terrible at names...

I have an unusual name (outside my home country) so I forgive easily if they don't remember it, but I'm annoyed if they act disproportionately overwhelmed when I interduce myself. It's 5 letters and easy to pronounce ffs 🙄

And yet I can recall the name of every dog I've met 😹

Oh I thought it was pronounced, "B.O.B. or B-oooooo-b"

Yeah, can’t use this one. I tried this one so many times and let me tell you mate, never works

I use "How do you spell your name?"... That way they think they'll be getting a present or something. If they ask wheres their present or whatever, I'll say it was for someone else who wanted to send them something.

Bobb? Is that a name?

Oops. That was unlucky. But considering most people have a "normal", usual name, not really surprising

This is genius....I'm gonna try it..."Hey mom......" (I really hope this joke makes sense)

I have tried many different ways to trick people to telling me there names!

Done this one ... it actually works every time.

ah! nice

If it was intentional....BURN...if it wasn't it was still a sick burn. Lol

I've denied all knowledge of an ex, it's quite empowering.

Bereavement can mess up the mind

There must be something more to this, time, grief, face-blindness

Now I wish I had an ex so could use this! LMAO

Same but then I just call them "sweetie" or something instead. I've had many students over the years and could recognize most even after they left my class, but names are 100% not my thing. Terrible with them.

Teachers! Always forgot my bloody name.

First year of secondary school, I had an art teacher who I really liked. She was a very artsy person and gave a lot of cool art projects. We didn't actually have to turn in all the art projects since Art was one of the very few subjects you could fail and still get promoted to the next grade. I was one of the few in my class who always turned in our projects (and on time). She left for Italy the next year and I didn't see her again until a few years later when she came back to visit on school's open day. I couldn't remember her name but she totally remembered mine. I honestly felt bad that I cannot remember her name because she was the best art teacher I have ever had.

I can tell you all about the personal things I know about them but not their name.

Ohmygawd, YES.

Dad to the rescue :D

My son once came home with a kid he met outside and said: Hi mom, that's my new friend! So I said: That's nice, what's his name? He then nudged the boy and said: Hey you, tell my mom your name.

actually laffed out loud at this. my high school chemistry teacher called me Eric the entire year. I never bothered correcting him, i was the only "Eric" in the class. and no...my name isn't eric...

My high school French teacher was also my neighbour. In school she'd call me Jacqueline (which is my name) but for some reason at home she'd call me Janet

As a kid at camp, I recognised someone from the year before and said, "I remember you, you're Patrick." With great confusion he told me his name was actually Jeffrey. "Why did I think your name was Patrick?" I asked. Of course he had no idea, and neither did I. But the mutual friends witness to this conversation thought it was so funny that everyone called him Patrick that camp. Poor Patrick.

I've been introduced to someone and a minute later called them by their real name. Oops.

This is a good one...I must remember this.

Doesnt work with patel, kumar or smiths

I've done this, or have them spell out their first/last name. >_>

How could you not come up with this on your own?

I do this all the time!

nods. i have never used 'whistledick,' but i like it. besides just warning folks i'll be asking their names again a few times....i've been known to give individual folks their own individual nicknames. for whatever reason, a name i give them sticks in my head better than the name they actually have. weird, really...

When my father started to lose his memory, he called all the dogs Pupper. I use this name for my dog now

I can't wait to use this! (I'm 68.)

Do you remember the name of the dog? You can say it in jest like..."Hello, father of *insert dog's name*"

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My mom and sister called the neighbor Warren for several years until they got a piece of his mail by accident and it was addressed to Walter. They asked him about it and he said he didn't want to embarrass them...

Well... what's his name?

The profile pic took all my attention. I wish I could unsee it.

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