We had family and friends over for dinner on Monday evening, when Brother-in-law Tim took a call. Being in the same room, we couldn't help but listen in:
"Hello? Oh, hi. Oh, we're doing pretty good. Yep. Holding up. We're at Lori & Clint's right now. Yes, The kids are doing okay, we have good days and bad. No, I can't think of anything right now. Yes, yes, well, thank you for calling; it really means a lot."He got off the phone and cracked us up when he told us "I have no idea who that was."
Have you ever bluffed your way through a conversation, either on the phone, or in person? Tell us.
Oh lordy yes! Way back when I was going to school at U of IL a girl walking towards me across the South Quad said, "Hi! Do you remember me?" I honestly replied I did not. She went on to tell me her name. Still stumped and obviously looking so, she said "We went to high school together. I was a year behind you."
ReplyDeleteShe seemed so determined that we knew each other that I smiled and said "Oh! Of course! Now I remember! How are you?" We continued briefly a little chit chatty conversation before going on our way.
When I got back to my dorm I looked in my yearbook (yes, I brought my high school yearbook to college with me; what can I say, I was the editor and proud of it) and sure enough there she was in the Junior class pictures. I still had no clue who she was and have no idea how she knew me (other than I was in every nonathletic extracurricular activity to be had so was pretty well known I guess) out of our school of 1600 students.
I'm the type to just say, "Who IS this?" But this reminded me of this morning when the phone rang. I was in a very deep sleep and woke up and saw the word "Cell" on my caller ID and in my sleepy haze, thought, "Oh it's a sales call to sale me cell service." And then just as I was putting the phone back, some tiny part of my brain realized the word in front of "Cell," was my daughter's name.
ReplyDeleteAh! tell me about it!
ReplyDeleteI was pretty well known in school and then college..and seems like people knew of me at my previous working places too.
I come across unrecognizable faces ever so often.. embarrasses me to say 'Sorry, I do remember your face..could you please help me recall where I know you from?'
In fact, the first part of the sentence is mostly a lie. Hmmph! :P