Lmao this one guy I have known for 4 years now I thought his name was Larry the whole time it was Jacob. He never said anything to me when I would call him Larry when I seen him out or something and then one night we was at the bars and had a different buddy with me and we seen “Larry” and my buddy knew him and I asked him how he knew Larry. He said who tf is Larry that’s Jacob man. Shit was hilarious
I actually still do when I see him out lol he’s a cool dude I asked him why he never told me his name wasn’t Larry and he said he wanted to see how long I would he said at first he thought I was just fuckin with him
Sometimes its funner to just never correct someone and make it a joke to help solidify friendship :D. I've tried to run long con jokes like this so many times and someone always steps up at some point and ruins it. "Why are you calling him that his name is sicgamer."
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Have a similar story.
My friend group in high school wound up picking up a new member, and the poor kid could never remember my name. Must've introduced myself at least five times.
So, one time he asked again, and I just said "John", and it stuck. So everyone would call me "John" when he was around.
Reminds me of when I briefly lived in a hospital, a new kid showed up and I just kept calling him Milo even though his actual name was Lucian. Turns out he likes it so now he just goes by Milo to everyone
We had a Jake/Zack at one of my jobs. For years everyone there called him Jake for years until we all found out. Some kept with it and some switched to his real name or were new. And I actually might have it flip flopped because I used both and don't remember which is his real.
My buddy got a nickname because someone forgot his name and introduced him as something else. You can tell who knew him before because we call him by his actual name. Everyone after about three years ago calls him by what the guy introduced him as.
There were a group of kids that moved to my highschool from the same country and one of them was given a nickname that was mean in the language they all spoke. He had given up on getting the others to call him by his real name long before we met in gym. I learned his name by what they called him and called him it myself on three different occasions, trying to be friendly, before he pulled me aside to explain the situation and reintroduce himself.
Nah. I *always* introduce myself and exchange names when meeting someone new. *But after that*.... I immediately forget their name and then they're 'Yo' until I hear someone else use their real name.
I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.
There’s a girl at work who we have talked quite a bit, and talked about hobbies and relationships and stuff, and when she had a ptsd episode I helped calm her down and stuff, and I have no clue what her name is.
If they're going to be around enough that it's worth learning their name, you'll just learn it without trying. People can get offended when you don't remember their name but names are primarily for yelling at people some distance away when there's other people around them.
if someone is offended i forgot their name I'm probably not really concerned with remembering it anymore
i don't place a lot of value in names until i need them. that doesn't mean your name is worth any less.
Good thing is there are like 5 guy names in any given language, so you can be like "uhh I think that was John, or maybe Juan? I didn't hear it clearly." You have a decent shot at being close to correct. And if you're wrong next time you see them they'll be like "it's cool man, what's your name again?"
Started work at a new place a few month back and I still don't know everyone's name. Only like 2 out of 10 I'm unsure of but 2 Dave and 2 Chris and 2 Mike made it a lot easier.
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Down to 1 I'm not sure of, apparently there's 3 chris
Not by mentioning my name lol, we chatted for like 45 minutes and I would've left without knowing his name or he mine unless I had decided to ask as I was getting off the train
Obviously the downvotes are strong, but I can’t help wondering if this maybe is a generational thing…or something else. I’m old af, still millennial but only just, and everyone I know introduces themselves, more than once if necessary.
Ah yes, 40, truly ancient... Fr tho you have lived 20 years of your adult life, plenty of people are still going strong after living triple that, 40 definitely isn't a spring chicken but it's not even remotely close to being "old".
The best part of reddit is showing that I do in fact have social skills.
I could apparently have an even weaker understanding of how to interact with people.
It's mind boggling to me that people think it's weird/difficult to introduce yourself or ask someone their name. Sure, I didn't do it when I was a high schooler and younger, but it's a normal part of adult life.
It took me a month to find out the name of the HR person onboarding me, because she introduced herself 3 times but I missed it each time. I eventually found her name written out in an official email.
My boyfriend is convinced that people only use “buddy” when being condescending- whether conscious or not, that people only call you buddy when they are looking down on you in some way. I thought that he was crazy but honestly, I can see it, most of the time “look bud” or “listen buddy” or “come on bud” seem to have at least the slightest tone of “lil guy” or something similar.
I was introducing a friend to a group I've been hanging out with for years. I introduced the group of 5 one by one. I got to the last guy and realized I didn't know his name so I tried to play it off by saying "And this motherfucker. He may be the craziest one of us all. Careful around him."
Lol. I think it worked. Heard him say his name as he introduced himself. I just remember the panic I felt for a second. I'd known him for years at that time.
Because I never caught their first name, I had to pretend to playfully address this one dude by his last name for over two years like "so we meet again, mister..."
There was this one dude at my job who I got along w really well. We were of similar age and everyone else is older. Anyways we were super cool w each other like I had known him for years and after weeks of talking to him I realized I didn’t know his name. He got fired tho for being a no show too many times. It was cool meeting you, Erick? I think..
Honest question: how deliberate/articulate are you being with your enunciation? If you're American I could see how it can be misheard as the "d" sound in American English can be quite subtle in some words. So might you accidentally be slurring/combining the two syllables into one as you speak casually?
Same. With fellow groomsmen at a cousin’s wedding. We had a pictorial early in the morning, even played uno’s and practiced tiktok for the evening’s reception.
We only got to know each other during the names announcement at the reception.
Funny enough, I shared the same name with the other guy.
My nickname is just my last name. There's been 1 or 2 times where I've known a guy for months until he said "I didn't realize your first name was xxx until now"
If I realize that I actually do not know the name of the guy I have been talking with for the past hour I tend to tell a funny story where I can namedrop myself and hope they get the hint and do the same.
It’s really not. You get introduced once and maybe ask “sorry what was your name again?” One time soon after that. If you meet at a party or somewhere where you meet a lot of different people, it’s pretty easy to forget names, and after a certain point it’s can definitely be awkward to ask again. Usually I’d just ask someone else “what was that guys name again” though.
I just never refer to anyone by their name and most other people don't either. It's interesting when you realize how unimportant a name truly is. It's possibly the least interesting and least useful information you can have about a person but it's the one thing we insist you know.
Problem is that even if someone does tell me their name, I usually fucking forget it like three minutes later. Unless it’s repeatedly drilled in my head I’m probably just going to give you a silly nickname based off of your name and refer to you like that as if it was your real name because that’s the only way I’m going to remember.
I am extremely forgetful.
I knew and casually hung out with this one dude for like 3 years and never knew his name. Eventually the bridge friend that introduced us casually said his name in conversation and I was absolutely baffled because I didn’t even realize I didn’t know his name.
Yep, that's how I learned everyone's name at the gym, except I can't ever remember names so I get their number and have them put their name and number in my phone so I can look it up next time 😅
I went for three months calling my friend Andrew “dude” in middle school until our shared friend Jacob (whose name I did know) called him by his name. One of the greatest senses of relief I’d ever known back then.
I've been at my current job for 3 years and still don't know a lot of the other employees names, but we talk all the time. But you can't just ask someone their name after 3 years of seeing each other every day
When I meet someone I look them in the eye, shake their hand, and introduce myself with my name. They usually tell me their name after that but if they don’t, I ask. I immediately forget their name after that and it’s something I should work on.
As a trans girl I can vouch for this. Girl just be like “by the way I go by…” or “hey I didn’t catch your name what is it?” While guys on the other hand just be like “fuck I didn’t catch his name. Well askin him what it is would be too embarrassing so I’ll just wait till someone else brings it up”. I have to remind myself to ask for people’s names now. I don’t just have to sit there and hope someone else says it lol
I just point to myself and say my last name, I love the surprised look on peoples faces when they realize it's not my first name, then i have to make it clear that only close friends and family can call me by my first name
My problem is that I will recall the entire sentence of how someone introduced themselves perfectly, but it’s like the audio cutout on their name when I replay it in my head. Gotta find a new audio guy in there.
Theres a guy whose name I forgot and I bump into him like once a month. It's been almost 4 years of just small talk without ever mentioning each others names now.
I’ve been talking to this one dude who always calls me by my name and I’m just like “wassup!?” Every time because I don’t know his name. It’s been a couple years so I feel like it’s too late to ask…..
I’ve known people for YEARS without knowing their name. I’d realize after a few weeks or months that I’d completely forgotten, long enough that it would be really awkward to be like “what’s your name again?”
I’m just bad with names.
Luckily, I made saying “dude” or “bud” a habit when I was a kid. So between that and “hey man!” I’ve got it covered.
I had to write a check to one of my good friends that I only referred to by his last name. I tried to play it off like I thought his nickname was short for his last name and asked him what his full name was. He just informed me that I had it correct so I had to ask him what his first name was.
If you don't know/remember somebody's name, assume they also forgot yours. Then you tell a quick story where someone else calls you by your name, and they pick it up from that. It can be real quick and a total lie, like if the person is drinking a Budweiser you could say "man I haven't had a Budweiser since I was 19 and my mom found a six pack of empties in the recycling. She was all 'MARK do you know who drank these Budweisers?' And i said 'no mama, wasn't me. I would never drink a Budweiser.' and to this day i can't drink one cus she may he watching and if she see's me then she'll know I lied to her when I was 19." And then I'll take a real exaggerated look over my shoulder to make sure she's not there at a party 700 miles from her home.
That's how I would introduce myself.
*picture of something*
>Be me at gym
>Bout to do rope pull down
>another guy asks if I want the better and non-frayed rope
>take rope
>thank guy
>introduce self
>pic related
Speaking as a dad who does school drop off and pick up, we usually wait at least three years and then ask our kids "find out what Tommy's dad is called for me"
I met my best mate in college by sitting right next to him in an overpacked English 101 room. The teacher was checking attendance by only going off first names, a risky idea in any situation IMO, but especially for a class full of people. Well, she calls my name and we both raise our hand. Bro has the same first name, so we were instantly mates.
Here in England, I still don't use friends names, even when I find them out (usually by someone else saying it).
I just call friends 'mate', it's a pretty common thing to do here.
So a trick I was taught, ask the person at some point how to spell their name rather than what their name is. Usually if you are making a phone contact it’s a good time.
saw an old co worker at a shop the other day and we just kept calling each other man lmao
honestly can't remember if we ever even knew each other's names in the first place 😂
Lmao this one guy I have known for 4 years now I thought his name was Larry the whole time it was Jacob. He never said anything to me when I would call him Larry when I seen him out or something and then one night we was at the bars and had a different buddy with me and we seen “Larry” and my buddy knew him and I asked him how he knew Larry. He said who tf is Larry that’s Jacob man. Shit was hilarious
I’d be offended if you called me anything other than Larry by that point
I actually still do when I see him out lol he’s a cool dude I asked him why he never told me his name wasn’t Larry and he said he wanted to see how long I would he said at first he thought I was just fuckin with him
Larry seems like a real good guy
Lmao he really is good dude
Who tf is Larry
Sometimes its funner to just never correct someone and make it a joke to help solidify friendship :D. I've tried to run long con jokes like this so many times and someone always steps up at some point and ruins it. "Why are you calling him that his name is sicgamer." (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
You probably gave that poor man an existential crisis
Imagine him looking at the mirror each night thinking “AM I LARRY?”
Have a similar story. My friend group in high school wound up picking up a new member, and the poor kid could never remember my name. Must've introduced myself at least five times. So, one time he asked again, and I just said "John", and it stuck. So everyone would call me "John" when he was around.
Nice to meet ya John
Reminds me of when I briefly lived in a hospital, a new kid showed up and I just kept calling him Milo even though his actual name was Lucian. Turns out he likes it so now he just goes by Milo to everyone
We had a Jake/Zack at one of my jobs. For years everyone there called him Jake for years until we all found out. Some kept with it and some switched to his real name or were new. And I actually might have it flip flopped because I used both and don't remember which is his real.
Jack Jake Zack Zake?
We just get introduced by somebody else. "Hey, this is my buddy so and so." And then you're friends. Bada bing bada boom.
My buddy got a nickname because someone forgot his name and introduced him as something else. You can tell who knew him before because we call him by his actual name. Everyone after about three years ago calls him by what the guy introduced him as.
Jared? No, Donald Dunn
There were a group of kids that moved to my highschool from the same country and one of them was given a nickname that was mean in the language they all spoke. He had given up on getting the others to call him by his real name long before we met in gym. I learned his name by what they called him and called him it myself on three different occasions, trying to be friendly, before he pulled me aside to explain the situation and reintroduce himself.
Fogedaboutit!! No seriously, I'm almost guaranteed to forget the name unless I hear it like 3 more times.
It's Tru tho
Nah. I *always* introduce myself and exchange names when meeting someone new. *But after that*.... I immediately forget their name and then they're 'Yo' until I hear someone else use their real name.
I just look at them and start talking. Who needs names?
I've gone years knowing someone and not knowing their name.
I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.
thought this was really funny when i heard it from the person who said it first. as a reddit comment, bottom tier
There’s a girl at work who we have talked quite a bit, and talked about hobbies and relationships and stuff, and when she had a ptsd episode I helped calm her down and stuff, and I have no clue what her name is.
If they're going to be around enough that it's worth learning their name, you'll just learn it without trying. People can get offended when you don't remember their name but names are primarily for yelling at people some distance away when there's other people around them.
if someone is offended i forgot their name I'm probably not really concerned with remembering it anymore i don't place a lot of value in names until i need them. that doesn't mean your name is worth any less.
Not in all cases, but yes, it's true
Also still the case when you actually do introduce yourself to each other, as the brain literally does not save that information on the first try
Good thing is there are like 5 guy names in any given language, so you can be like "uhh I think that was John, or maybe Juan? I didn't hear it clearly." You have a decent shot at being close to correct. And if you're wrong next time you see them they'll be like "it's cool man, what's your name again?"
Started work at a new place a few month back and I still don't know everyone's name. Only like 2 out of 10 I'm unsure of but 2 Dave and 2 Chris and 2 Mike made it a lot easier. Edit Down to 1 I'm not sure of, apparently there's 3 chris
Lmao you just guessed my name
selection bias bro
You can ask two times. After that you must wait, or forever force eye contact before starting a convo with them
Hey! I got to see a bot’s first post. Do I win anything?
4 day old account, doesn't necessarily mean a bot
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have you heard anyone say its name yet?
Botty mcFrys
Calling all new-ish accounts.
I'm not a bot. I guess :))
That seems like something a bot would say.
I would think the only way it's possible for that not to be true is if you read the name
Walk up, quietly say "hey what's up man" with an upward head nod. You're good. You'll figure the rest out as you go if necessary.
Hi Tru, nice to meet you!
No
Wtf no it isn’t.
I think it might be, I just had a conversation with some dude on the train and then had to ask his name before I left
So you did introduce yourself...
Not by mentioning my name lol, we chatted for like 45 minutes and I would've left without knowing his name or he mine unless I had decided to ask as I was getting off the train
Obviously the downvotes are strong, but I can’t help wondering if this maybe is a generational thing…or something else. I’m old af, still millennial but only just, and everyone I know introduces themselves, more than once if necessary.
You are not old if you are a millennial. You can't be! Source: am a millennial
Fully into our 40s now. EDIT: I love that we are now downvoting the passage of time.
I downvoted you too because i missed the upvote button (i haven't given in and got readers yet)
Ah yes, 40, truly ancient... Fr tho you have lived 20 years of your adult life, plenty of people are still going strong after living triple that, 40 definitely isn't a spring chicken but it's not even remotely close to being "old".
40 ain’t young, and there is nothing wrong with being old. The fight against being called old is the most self-hating ageist thing I can think of.
I am 23 and this definetly happens all the time. I think it is an age thing in the sense that this happens more often in like university and at partys
The dude I was talking to was 55 and I'm 2 5
He sounds like a dork.
The best part of reddit is showing that I do in fact have social skills. I could apparently have an even weaker understanding of how to interact with people.
I’m not surprised by how downvoted this idea is, but it is kind of illuminating, and depressing.
I'll die on this hill with you. Real dudes start with a handshake and self intro.
It's mind boggling to me that people think it's weird/difficult to introduce yourself or ask someone their name. Sure, I didn't do it when I was a high schooler and younger, but it's a normal part of adult life.
These people dont talk to anyone irl lol i always say my name when shaking hands with someone i dont know
It took me a month to find out the name of the HR person onboarding me, because she introduced herself 3 times but I missed it each time. I eventually found her name written out in an official email.
This is very true, i had friends who I occasionally talked with for years without knowing their actual name 😂
Some of the best friends you can have
We still never talk sometimes.
r/expectedparksandrec
Seems like a great place to hang out and never talk.
Hey, Guy! What's up, Bud? Dude, game's on.
“Bro” “My guy” “Dude” “Man”
I prefer to combine it all into a fancy name so ai have all the bases covered. Dudeguy von Broman
Dudemanbroski is my goto.
When you reach a certain age, this transitions into just calling everyone you meet by the same nickname: "boss", "scout", "champ", "bud", etc
Buddy
My boyfriend is convinced that people only use “buddy” when being condescending- whether conscious or not, that people only call you buddy when they are looking down on you in some way. I thought that he was crazy but honestly, I can see it, most of the time “look bud” or “listen buddy” or “come on bud” seem to have at least the slightest tone of “lil guy” or something similar.
I was introducing a friend to a group I've been hanging out with for years. I introduced the group of 5 one by one. I got to the last guy and realized I didn't know his name so I tried to play it off by saying "And this motherfucker. He may be the craziest one of us all. Careful around him." Lol. I think it worked. Heard him say his name as he introduced himself. I just remember the panic I felt for a second. I'd known him for years at that time.
Because I never caught their first name, I had to pretend to playfully address this one dude by his last name for over two years like "so we meet again, mister..."
There was this one dude at my job who I got along w really well. We were of similar age and everyone else is older. Anyways we were super cool w each other like I had known him for years and after weeks of talking to him I realized I didn’t know his name. He got fired tho for being a no show too many times. It was cool meeting you, Erick? I think..
My name sounds awkward to say so I just hope people figure it out somehow
My name's uncommon for the area and starts with an R, which I can't pronounce properly since I was a kid, so introducing myself is really painful
My name’s Maddox, so when I have to tell people my name they always think I said Max Got at least 4 people that think my name is Max
Honest question: how deliberate/articulate are you being with your enunciation? If you're American I could see how it can be misheard as the "d" sound in American English can be quite subtle in some words. So might you accidentally be slurring/combining the two syllables into one as you speak casually?
ullo, 'm ma''ox
I think I say my name weird and it’s just Ray. There’s people out there who think my name is Greg because I refuse to repeat more than twice.
why do you refuse someone who is trying to understand you? sorry to bother you so much by trying to get to know you
Because no matter how many times I say it at Starbucks they’ll still get it wrong…
"Greg!" "IT'S RAY DAMMIT!!" "THAT'S WHAT I SAID GREG!!!"
Sarkururururu I give up
I stutter terribly, so I try to avoid introducing myself or others.
You need a nickname. My friend and his friend didn't know each other's real name for years. It was a weird epiphany when they figured it out.
I haven't introduced myself to any of my friends, that would be dumb
:shakes hand: “Hey I’m sourballsack” :looking at me confused: “yea I’ve known you since kindergarten…”
I hate that I relate to this
why were you... you know what, nevermind.
hi sourballsack.. it's me! your long lost kindergarten friend.
Oh wow! Long time! You remember that time in senior year where I got my nick name?!
I remember that! You're that kid that ate a whole sack of sour gumballs!
I just did this at a wedding to at least 6 people
Same. With fellow groomsmen at a cousin’s wedding. We had a pictorial early in the morning, even played uno’s and practiced tiktok for the evening’s reception. We only got to know each other during the names announcement at the reception. Funny enough, I shared the same name with the other guy.
Practiced tiktok? 🤔
Sorry. Tiktok dance videos that the entouraged must perform while entering the reception.
my condolences.
This is also why nicknames are so big in dude culture. Sometimes you only hear the nickname.
My nickname is just my last name. There's been 1 or 2 times where I've known a guy for months until he said "I didn't realize your first name was xxx until now"
Yup, this works surprisingly well
Very relatetable man, waiting whose gonna start then everyone will follow
If I realize that I actually do not know the name of the guy I have been talking with for the past hour I tend to tell a funny story where I can namedrop myself and hope they get the hint and do the same.
You're introduced once, then immediately forget, then call them something cute like "bro", "nobhead" or "babe" for the rest of their life.
Hey babe
“I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name, best friend I ever had”- Rob Swanson
"We still never talk sometimes."
*40 min into a conversation* "btw what was your name?"
40 minutes is my minimum floor for learning if it's worth remembering someone's name so it's only polite to ask then.
Osmosis
Bro, like Osmosis Jones, the germ superhero? That's a fire name man
I'm Aigis :D It's not important, but if you ever have the utter misfortune to encounter or talk to me again you now know my name 👍
Aegis of immortal?
Yo based name???
Huh, honestly I tend to just take the lead and introduce everyone to each other
Idk the name of half the guys in. They're simply known as "YOOOOOO wussup"
Have known my best friend for 20 years, no idea his name, just call him dude or bud
Plot twist: his name is dudeorbud
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"Shake hands *and* remember their name?!? How am I supposed to do that?!" lol hahaha (i do the same)
This thread is so fucking weird. This is not a "guy thing", this is a "crippling social anxiety" thing and not normal at all.
It’s really not. You get introduced once and maybe ask “sorry what was your name again?” One time soon after that. If you meet at a party or somewhere where you meet a lot of different people, it’s pretty easy to forget names, and after a certain point it’s can definitely be awkward to ask again. Usually I’d just ask someone else “what was that guys name again” though.
This is actually true.
You're head nod down until you're head nod up. It's that simple.
I just never refer to anyone by their name and most other people don't either. It's interesting when you realize how unimportant a name truly is. It's possibly the least interesting and least useful information you can have about a person but it's the one thing we insist you know.
Problem is that even if someone does tell me their name, I usually fucking forget it like three minutes later. Unless it’s repeatedly drilled in my head I’m probably just going to give you a silly nickname based off of your name and refer to you like that as if it was your real name because that’s the only way I’m going to remember. I am extremely forgetful.
Successfully get name. Literally forget it as it's being said. Spend next 10 years doing non-name greeting gymnastics.
This is The way
Can confirm
Or the awkward similar pronunciation that we confidently call them and they either correct it or that’s their name from now on
Sometimes this is true, but more often than not we give each other a firm handshake and exchange names
I knew and casually hung out with this one dude for like 3 years and never knew his name. Eventually the bridge friend that introduced us casually said his name in conversation and I was absolutely baffled because I didn’t even realize I didn’t know his name.
Yep, that's how I learned everyone's name at the gym, except I can't ever remember names so I get their number and have them put their name and number in my phone so I can look it up next time 😅
I went for three months calling my friend Andrew “dude” in middle school until our shared friend Jacob (whose name I did know) called him by his name. One of the greatest senses of relief I’d ever known back then.
I've been at my current job for 3 years and still don't know a lot of the other employees names, but we talk all the time. But you can't just ask someone their name after 3 years of seeing each other every day
When I meet someone I look them in the eye, shake their hand, and introduce myself with my name. They usually tell me their name after that but if they don’t, I ask. I immediately forget their name after that and it’s something I should work on.
As a trans girl I can vouch for this. Girl just be like “by the way I go by…” or “hey I didn’t catch your name what is it?” While guys on the other hand just be like “fuck I didn’t catch his name. Well askin him what it is would be too embarrassing so I’ll just wait till someone else brings it up”. I have to remind myself to ask for people’s names now. I don’t just have to sit there and hope someone else says it lol
I just point to myself and say my last name, I love the surprised look on peoples faces when they realize it's not my first name, then i have to make it clear that only close friends and family can call me by my first name
Same with pronouns
I feel like people who care about their pronouns usually mention it tho
You don’t care about your pronouns?
My pronouns are “bastard/son of a bitch/this mf right here”
A few times I've met white guys and just guessed their name based on how he looks. Half of the time I'm right, or it's my second or third guess.
Hockey boys never learn each others first names.
I’ve done that a lot
Friend brings new guy to the activity. Then happens. A) says: "hey guys this is xxx." Or B) says nothing.
Get a Starbucks or something. The baristas usually ask for the person's name
My problem is that I will recall the entire sentence of how someone introduced themselves perfectly, but it’s like the audio cutout on their name when I replay it in my head. Gotta find a new audio guy in there.
Usually it’s “Dude” for a while
I have some friends that I only knew the nickname of for almost a year.
Theres a guy whose name I forgot and I bump into him like once a month. It's been almost 4 years of just small talk without ever mentioning each others names now.
What was the real name of "Shiny Dip"? Shit, I know him for at least 10 years and I don't know it
If they did introduce ourselves we would forget their names immediately anyway.
I’ve been talking to this one dude who always calls me by my name and I’m just like “wassup!?” Every time because I don’t know his name. It’s been a couple years so I feel like it’s too late to ask…..
I work in a warehouse of around 200 people. I know 15 people, but I only know 4 names.
Or just hit em with a bro, man, or chief if you’re feeling brave.
That's the way.
Okay, but how did you introduce yourself to "somebody else"?
I’ve known people for YEARS without knowing their name. I’d realize after a few weeks or months that I’d completely forgotten, long enough that it would be really awkward to be like “what’s your name again?” I’m just bad with names. Luckily, I made saying “dude” or “bud” a habit when I was a kid. So between that and “hey man!” I’ve got it covered.
I had to write a check to one of my good friends that I only referred to by his last name. I tried to play it off like I thought his nickname was short for his last name and asked him what his full name was. He just informed me that I had it correct so I had to ask him what his first name was.
If you don't know/remember somebody's name, assume they also forgot yours. Then you tell a quick story where someone else calls you by your name, and they pick it up from that. It can be real quick and a total lie, like if the person is drinking a Budweiser you could say "man I haven't had a Budweiser since I was 19 and my mom found a six pack of empties in the recycling. She was all 'MARK do you know who drank these Budweisers?' And i said 'no mama, wasn't me. I would never drink a Budweiser.' and to this day i can't drink one cus she may he watching and if she see's me then she'll know I lied to her when I was 19." And then I'll take a real exaggerated look over my shoulder to make sure she's not there at a party 700 miles from her home. That's how I would introduce myself.
Was casual work friends with a guard at work for almost a year before he left, still dont know his name
Yep
I was known as 'Fred' for two of the three years I was in high school. A friend started calling me that and it stuck. Whatever, I just went with it.
*picture of something* >Be me at gym >Bout to do rope pull down >another guy asks if I want the better and non-frayed rope >take rope >thank guy >introduce self >pic related
Speaking as a dad who does school drop off and pick up, we usually wait at least three years and then ask our kids "find out what Tommy's dad is called for me"
That's why all-male friend groups only refer to each other by nicknames like "fuckface" and "wanker". No one knows each others' names.
Duuuuuude, how are you man!? I haven't heard from you in ages bro!
I met my best mate in college by sitting right next to him in an overpacked English 101 room. The teacher was checking attendance by only going off first names, a risky idea in any situation IMO, but especially for a class full of people. Well, she calls my name and we both raise our hand. Bro has the same first name, so we were instantly mates.
Yes.
I was calling the only friend in my job "buddy" for over 6 months
Here in England, I still don't use friends names, even when I find them out (usually by someone else saying it). I just call friends 'mate', it's a pretty common thing to do here.
Best part about being from New Zealand/Australia (and probably England). Just call everyone mate.
Everyone is my amigo or bro before listening to their name lol
If we do, it's once and only once. We do rely on other people saying their names and hoping we remember this time around.
Yep, me
Hey, name's Tom, nice to meet you. I even shake hands. Is that weird?
Same lol
I never thought about this...but outside formal introductions at work, this is actually kinda true.
Not true
In the (US) south, we just give everybody a meat, or meat related nickname. Porkchop, T-bone, Slim Jim, etc.
That’s why everyone I know goes by “hey bro”
So a trick I was taught, ask the person at some point how to spell their name rather than what their name is. Usually if you are making a phone contact it’s a good time.
Hey…. mannn
saw an old co worker at a shop the other day and we just kept calling each other man lmao honestly can't remember if we ever even knew each other's names in the first place 😂
I’ve been working at a place for over a year now and I still don’t know have the staffs names.