Anon, clearly the response is to heed your own admirable suggestion: forgive your forgettably-named good-conversation-making acquaintance for overreacting to your completely human "gaffe." Keep acting like a normal person to him/her and everybody else, no matter how absurdly they respond to you being a totally normal person, and maybe we can start a chain reaction of normal humanness, and then one day we will all be reasonable and not die in a horrible whole-Earth fire that we ourselves created!
Also might I add, if you really let Whatsername make you feel bad for your "mistake" and seriously feel like you've slighted them and feel a real sense of guilt for this, you might not be as normal as I originally thought. I mean, if we ever let people "make us feel" any kind of way about stupid shit like this, that's kind of on us.
In short, break the chain reaction now and don't let the weirdness reverberate back to you! Don't feel bad for something that wasn't bad!
I hope now that you see this in writing that you realize that you’re the overly sensitive wuss bag. “Now I’ll never be able to see you again without thinking I've done you wrong.” “Let the awkward moments continue!” Douche much?
Id say there is enough emotional baggage to go around on both sides. Get over it. People forget names and who gives a fuck if they have an issue with it. Are they paying you're way through life. Perhaps they're right too, maybe he/she actually wasnt that memorable. Try to remember the last person you saw walking down the street that DIDN'T have their head down and up their smart phone. The world is burning and this the the best bullsh!t we can come up with?
@13- Seriously. If you have to, cop to your friend that you forgot their name and ask friend to go ahead and introduce themselves. Or, barring that, say hello to forgettable person, and then say, "So, have you met my friend so-and-so?". Then you basically force them to introduce themselves.
Man, people I don't remember come up to me pretty frequently and start chatting like old friends.If I had someone with me, I'd just say, "Hey, introduce yourselves while I run over here real quick. I'm turtling." Otherwise, I just chat with them like I remember who they are and I never mention their name. If you want to know their name, ask for them to write their number down and tell them to put their name on it so you remember whose number it is. Otherwise, if you don't like them and they start getting whiny, just tell them that they should have been more impressive and then flick a booger at them.
Lots of people are bad at remembering names, so it's silly for anyone to make an issue of it. But is it possible that the person was simply making a bad attempt at humor? Some people try to be funny but aren't very good at it. Sometimes it's better to give someone the benefit of the doubt and just let things go.
In short, break the chain reaction now and don't let the weirdness reverberate back to you! Don't feel bad for something that wasn't bad!
It happens.
oh shit, your gentlemanly ways would have had her for life if only. . .
dude, take your trilby, your neckbeard and your mlp fetish back to your mom's basement.