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Namisan18

Has this happened to you? Your walking down the street or just hanging outsomewhere and someone comes up to you all extra friendly and stuff and try to say hi to you and even talk to you. The stuff their even talking to you about sounds familure. I mean the person knows your name and personal stuff. BUT you have no idea who thay are. And then you try to act nice and agree with them at the mean time your wondering "Who on earth are you???"

This just happened to me just now on the late bus home. There was this girl accross from me. She smiled and to be polite I smiled back. Then before she left the bus she scratched playfully on my knee (that really freaked me out). All the time I was thinking "Who are you and why are you touching me???"

Or you don't know the person at first then after like ten minuets after the person left it just dawned on me who they were (after I had a full out conversation with that person)

This seems to happen to me alot….Very many people seem to know me and I don't have the slightest hint of who they are.

If this has happened to you as well lets talk about it.

Thedevil

This happens to me all the time. im walking down the street and a guy comes and he is like how are you? Hows life with you? I go great hows life with you.(in my head im asking myself who the hell is he?) later on i now the guy sometimes i dotn now who he is so i have to ask a friend if he knew him.

Namisan18

Sometimes when this happens you try to get away but without being rude. Like creep away or say your busy or something like that.

CosmicDebris

Yeah, that's happened to me before. Actually, the most recent time was when I went into the Eastwood Insurance office and the agent there was all like "hi! how are you doing?" and asking me questions like how someone is doing (I can't remember who know, something generic like mom or dad or sister that could have been someone I knew) and I honestly wasn't sure if she was someone that knew me or was just really friendly, or mistook me for someone else… :unsure:

I have to admit, it's even worse when the situation is reversed. You know, when you think you know someone and you wave at them and then realize that it's NOT who you think it is...

That sometimes happens to me, except we don't know each othe rat all and I just have to keep talking. I don't like it when I accidentaly wave at someone I don't know, I feel stupid.

joekido the Second

HAHAHa, those things down happen to me

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I"m serious, olny people I knew do that.

Pepsi

Gawd, I hate that. When I'm shopping, someone comes over to me and says Hi, how are you? bla bla bla.. And when he/she leaves, my friend, who I am probably walking with, ask me who it was and I just shrugg "No idea. Who cares anyway?"

i never met those kind of people before ..i always with my friends ..we had like ..6 or 7 people ..everybody seems don't wanna look at us or me lol ..i think if people starring at me ..means he's not afraid of me ,and want to get up a fight lol … but mostly nobody's stare at me ..they saw me ,they just act they didnt see and just walk..lol ....what's the feel when people came to talk with you ..?lol

Shinagamithe3rd

That happens to me all the time, always does when yer famous heh heh heh

Yoska

It has happened few times to me and it always makes me feel pretty paranoia. And often it has been some old school mate or alike but only I realise it much later. I must just have a bad face memory.

normyk

My memory is bad. Especially for people and names. I'll recognize somebody but it will take me forever to figure out who the hell I'm talking to (too bad its not like my memory for music). I run into ex-co-workers on a semi-regular basis and I can't for the life of me remember their names. I can tell what wing of the building the worked in, what floor, what department, who they reported to, what projects I worked on with them but if you ask me for a name, well, my brain just can't manage to hold onto that sort of thing. Then sometime in the next week I'll go 'Oooh, that was xxxx! Damn!'

bevin

That'll happen to me very occassionally, but I'll usually at least recognize the person evn if I can't remember their name. I did have one guy do that to me when I was working at Perkins, though, it was supremely bizarre. He was an older guy, in his mid-forties, he came in, saw me working at the register, said my name and how glad he was to see me working that day, asked how I was. I said I was fine, he got seated, I thought he was weird, went back to work, then later he was on his way to the bathroom and he started talking to me again, I think about what I was doing, if I was school or something. It was really weird, he didn't look remotely familiar to me at all. I don't have much of a memory for names but faces I'm normally pretty good with. That guy was a completely blank for me, though, it was weird.

–Bevin

RedShanks

Sometimes. But either the people talk about something we did together/the place we were at the same time and I get a clue who they could be or I look really confused and then they tell me who they are. It's a bit embarrassing but better than leaving without knowing who they are.

If I start talking to people who might not recognise me, I always start with a remark about the time/place we met. It makes things much easier.

Thedevil

Originally posted by Namisan18@Apr 6 2005, 01:36 AM
Sometimes when this happens you try to get away but without being rude. Like creep away or say your busy or something like that.
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what i do is act that someone phoned me, pick my phone start talking move away a bit(as if its important) then talk for a while until the person leaves

if someone comes up i just say i got to be somewhere especially the same excuse to the same guy 5 times so he could take a hint

Namisan18

This might be off topic a bit.

I remember when I was at Epcot Disney World. I was waiting outside for my cousin to make a purchase inside one of their over priced stores. I was staring in to space veging out when I happened to be staring in the direction of some guy with a clip board working there. He I acidently met eyes with him then he noticed I my accidently looked at him then he starts coming over. I was all like "oh crap saw me!!!" I all start to creep away towards the door of the store. But I didn't want to look like I was running away. But he caught me… and made me do some stupid survay. (I don't know why he started to walk over to me from all the way over from 10 yards away from me. Maybe because I was the same ethnicity as him or I looked like somone who looks like doing survays I don't know...)

Rasengan Zero

Ah yes, it happened only a few times though. However, I've mistaken people for other people I know. Such as one time, I was walking alongside a pal and thought they split up for a second. I turned around and saw someone beside me and said "Oh there you are-" Oops, wrong person. >_> My buddy did wander off a little ways away. Then there was this morning where I accidentally mistook two people as one my best friends walking down the hall. XD That's not good. And there was also that one time…..

Thedevil

i hated when this happens you think you now the guy but you dont and you get embarresed an never come to this place in a year(exagurating)

Doesn't happen too much in real life, but a LOT in AIM and such.

Some person would IM me, and I'll reply nicely, since I'm a nice guy. Its in the genes. :lol:

So, it'll usually go something like this:

Other Person: Hey
Me: Hi
Other Person: What's up?
Me: Not much.
Me: U?
Other Person: Same
Me: Uh… do I know u...?

Here is where stuff gets complicated. Some people would be like "No, I have no idea why you're on my list", others would go "yeah, you're Jack's friend's cousin's friend's girlfriend's friend's friend", and such...