Funny old World

[derek kelly]

A few weeks back I was giving a speech at a good friend & colleague’s retirement do at Askham Grange Prison, afterwards having a good natter with people whom I have worked with in the past when a guy wearing an Amey (works dept) polo shirt approached me & shook my hand, he called me Derek which is unusual as most people know me as Ned, I didn’t have a clue who he was.
I was speaking to Dave (the guy who retired) the other day & asked him who it was “oh, that’s Mark Taylor, head of works” Dave replied, I am now kicking myself, I have not seen Mark for 45 years when we grew up as next door neighbours.

 

[andyBeaker]

Used to happen to me at work a lot - people coming up and speaking to me like a long lost friend.

Often I would think "who the hell is this"

 

[Minkey]

I get people coming up to me and chatting to me, not a clue who they are, probably customers who come into the shop and recognise me?

 

[andyBeaker]

I get people coming up to me and chatting to me, not a clue who they are, probably customers who come into the shop and recognise me?

Probably stalkers off here...

 

[ianrobbo1]

I worked for a short time at Brittania records Romford, in the warehouse, I'd not been "home" in over 40 years, a bloke came up to me and asked how I was, and proceeded to chat like I was his brother or something, all the while I'm thinking "wtfit" and every day I worked there, up he'd come and carry on as I'd never left, to this day I've still no idea who the fuck he was or where "I" am supposed to know him from, apparently he would have recognized me anywhere!!

 

[andyBeaker]

I worked for a short time at Brittania records Romford, in the warehouse, I'd not been "home" in over 40 years, a bloke came up to me and asked how I was, and proceeded to chat like I was his brother or something, all the while I'm thinking "wtfit" and every day I worked there, up he'd come and carry on as I'd never left, to this day I've still no idea who the fuck he was or where "I" am supposed to know him from, apparently he would have recognized me anywhere!!

My policy was always to be honest and say 'sorry, I can't place you' as the longer it went on the worse it gets.

Well, that was my policy.......eventually....

 

[ianrobbo1]

My policy was always to be honest and say 'sorry, I can't place you' as the longer it went on the worse it gets.

Well, that was my policy.......eventually....

Couldn't get a word in edgewise, and for me, that's not often the case.

 

[Squag1]

We had a class reunion after 50 years.
Quite difficult to recognise most.
Vanishing hair was a major reason.

 

[Malone]

I was at the golf club a few days ago and a chap came up to me and asked if I was Simon? Apparently we went to the same school 60 miles away 50+ years ago. Oh hello, how are you etc. small world blah blah. Then he mentioned he’d moved back to devon with his male partner.

I moved away sharpish

 

[Minkey]

I had a funny experience once in a Sainsbury's store. This elderly gentleman came over to me and said he knew me from some where but didn't know where. The strange thing was I was thinking the same thing (this was before I started working in retail)

 

[derek kelly]

A funny one happened to a colleague, a lovely guy but walking disaster.
He was doing a course at Askham Grange women’s Prison, he was walking along one of the corridors when a women said “it’s Mr Dallimore isn’t it, are you still at Wakefield?” He replied yes & left wondering where he knew her from, a bit later on he saw her again & said “forgive me for not remembering you, did you work in admin.” “No, I was on A wing, I was called John” she replied

 

[Lee337]

Working as in a training department for a large Govt. department for 20 years, it happens to me a lot. some people get quite upset when I don't recognise them from a course I ran 18 years ago.

It seems that despite training (as a conservative estimate) over 5000 individuals over that time, some of them can't understand how I could have forgotten not only their name, but the office they worked in and what subject I delivered.

 

[derek kelly]

Working as in a training department for a large Govt. department for 20 years, it happens to me a lot. some people get quite upset when I don't recognise them from a course I ran 18 years ago.

It seems that despite training (as a conservative estimate) over 5000 individuals over that time, some of them can't understand how I could have forgotten not only their name, but the office they worked in and what subject I delivered.

My five year old Grandson will ask me to get him a toy or something, if his mother doesn’t want him to have it we sometimes hope he forgets about it, several weeks later he will remember & ask me if I got him the toy he asked for yesterday.

 

[Minkey]

I used to work for a food company and one day we had an inspection to make sure we were an nut free site and the name of the inspector Mr Nutall