# You don't know me do you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956 "2000-06-10T14:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/21 "2000-06-12T15:32:40Z")
yeah, holy fucking tangents aha! just tell us who it was, i don’t have a story to share. ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/22 "2000-06-12T21:33:18Z")
I had the reverse experience recently. Tried to look up an old college roommate when visting the old college town with wife and son. Since I could not get a listing, I gave up. But a day later bumped into him in a shopping mall. Unbelievable. As I said “John , is that you?” he stared at me with a complete blank on his face. I was just so surprised to run into him, I started going on about the odds of us bumping into each other like this, what with me trying to fidn his number and all…Then I get a grip, and realize that he must think I’m a stalker or something, so I hurry up and tell him who I am (changed a lot since then), and we had a great laughhh about it. But it was the spookiest thing to run into him like that… I agree, don’t play the game, just say your name. Sili ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/23 "2000-06-12T21:52:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh my GODS! Didn’t I fuck you during Carl’s orgy? Weren’t you the one that showed me how sexy a snake up my ass could be??? ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides! This is the sort of thing that I could never in a million years say. But the next time someone does this to me, I will _think_ it. Then I will no doubt begin laughing hysterically and they’ll hurry away, alarmed, and the problem will be solved. 🙂 My grandfather was fairly well-known person in our state (pretty high up in state government), so in his life he met a _lot_ of people, some of whom thought they were closer personal friends with him than in fact they were – one of his gifts was the ability to connect with people. As he got older, people would often come up to him and say “Jim! How’ve you been? You remember me? Oh, come on, surely you remember _me_!” I was just a kid (he died when I was 13), but I can remember thinking: “He’s eighty years old, he knows a lot of people, and he pretty clearly doesn’t remember you. Give an old man a break!” Then I’d kick them in the shins. Okay, not really, but I wish I had. ---
**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/24 "2000-06-12T22:13:51Z")
Rhymes with a female body part…? DOLORES! ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/25 "2000-06-12T22:48:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Okay shithead. You got me. Who the hell was she? > [@](#): > > yeah, holy fucking tangents aha! just tell us who it was, i don’t have a story to share. She was the chick I used to buttslam in my 56 chevy pickup…ok? Satisfied? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/26 "2000-06-13T14:18:04Z")
> [@](#): > > She was the chick I used to buttslam in my 56 chevy pickup…ok? Satisfied? No, but hopefully she was… 😉 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/27 "2000-06-13T15:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > **She was the chick I used to buttslam in my 56 chevy pickup…ok? Satisfied?** Not till I get to buttslam her in your 56 chevy pickup. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/28 "2000-06-14T01:52:21Z")
This sort of thing happens to me _all the time!_. In high-school, I was one of those people who gets remembered for being weird. Everybody knew my name. So now, four years later, I still occasionally run into people whom I wouldn’t know from a hole in the wall, but who remember me and what I was like back then. Fortunately, due to my eccentric reputation, I can pretty much get away with any response. What is more difficult to deal with is the fact that my father is a prominent political figure in my hometown. I often run into people who remember me, but whom I do not remember at all, and they always turn out to be county commissioners or state senators or something… ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956/29 "2000-06-14T02:41:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > I get stuff like this all the time: “Hi! Remember me? You cut my son’s hair 6 months ago!” “Remember me? You cut my hair once. The name is Chad.” Yep. I’ve been cutting hair for 6 years and you’re the ONLY Chad I’ve ever done! > > > > Luckily, they don’t get mad if I say I don’t remember. They understand that I do so many heads of hair that I can’t keep track if they aren’t regulars. > > \*\* > > Hey would you cut mine? > \*\* I’d love to! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-know-me-do-you/21956.md?page=1)