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- Nairn5
Just went out to empty my bin. On the way back in someone brightly says "Hello Nairn!" and I am entirely at a loss as to who they are. I've been around this neck of the woods for years now, so I 'know' a lot of people, or rather 'have forgotten a lot of people', but they still know me because - well, I'm me.
I brightly say hello back and then walk in with them, racking my brain, trying to work out Who The Fuck They Are, to no avail. I walk with them to the back of the building, where my studio is and I'm at ghis point quite lost, so I ask "Where are you off to, then?", hoping that might illlict some mote of cognition.
"To see you, Nairn?"
Oh. Right. Of course, I had a client coming in, didn't I?
I spend the rest of our short meeting just fucking dying inside and really regretting not having had any food today. So fucking stupid. I've only met him twice, but jesus.
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I'm pretty sure I have 'contextual blindness' because this is far from the first time I've embarrassed myself with this sort of shit.
- Pot destroys your short and long term memory.shapesalad
- hahaha i have that beat. i once took a train journey and a woman (not unattractive but weirdly familiar) came and sat down opposite me.hans_glib
- i smiled and started to read my paper and as i looked down at the headlinel a voice in the back of my head started screaming at me that i knew who she was.hans_glib
- a quick glance up confirmed my suspicion, but i had no idea why. i started to panic then worse, blush. i sat back and held the paper in front of me to 'read' ithans_glib
- of course i couldnt read a word as i realised whe was a prospective client i'd met earlier in the week to pitch for work.hans_glib
- by now i could feel my face was as red as hell from embarrassment so i was trapped behind the paper turning the pages as if i was reading it.hans_glib
- of course i couldn't remember her name. plus if i dropped the paper and said hello it'd seem really weird. shit! i was trapped!hans_glib
- in the end i decided to double down on my snubbing and continued to pretend to read the paper for 20 mins until my face went back to it's proper colour.hans_glib
- then as cool as i could manage i lowered the paper and said hello, apologised b"ut it was early in the morning and i need time to come to life, you understand"hans_glib
- she pretended not to mind, and we talked about the project a bit further and i got the job.
but... fuuuuuuuucccckkk! so close!hans_glib - signs you're getting....utopian
- ...dementiaBeeswax
- ^ LOL!oey_oey