Sunday, November 19, 2006

Remembering names 101

It's Sunday and time to fix the garden, cut the grass, the the kids loose on the front lawn for a change, opening the garage doors and say hi to the neighbors doing the same thing.

Is it an American phenomena or is it just me who is really bad - but why does everyone here always remember names so easily?! I've always been pretty bad at this, and here I fell really, really bad. People I've met briefly once, remembers my name and even if I got an eternity, I wouldn't be able to recall theirs. Gaah! Do they take a special class in school?? "How to easily remember names, 101". Where do I sign up??

My husband is just the same so when we moved into our house, we decided to have new strategy when meeting our new neighbors... Whoever of us who met a neighbor who introduced themselves, where to go straight back into the house and write down their names in our little black book. This strategy has worked pretty good.

We now know the names of our neighbors.

At least if we have a chance to run back to check the notes in the book...

2 comments:

malin2 said...

Du är inte ensam om att komma ihåg namn. Jag är totalt urkass.
Skäms.

Annika said...

Smart! I like that idea...