It happens...

[jomiran@lemmy.ml]

A month? I've known guys for years and still don't know their names and it is WAY too late to ask.

[pyrflie@lemm.ee]

There's a place I like to go to once or twice a week and there is another regular that generally sits at the bar like me. I have talked to this guy over lunch off and on for almost a decade now. I do not know his name.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

This is the correct way to do friendships. Drag doesn't agree with the forced intimacy of learning someone's name the same day you meet them. Names should be shared the third time you meet someone. Of course sometimes it's necessary to learn names earlier or later, but the default should be third.

[lnxtx@feddit.nl]

What until you need to reference your bro for someone else.

I talked to ??? about /something/...

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Nah, just where you know them from is plenty.

[moody@lemmings.world]

Or El Duderino, if they're not into the whole brevity thing.

[johnworks@sh.itjust.works]

“I’m the dude, man”

[djdarren@thelemmy.club]

"I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes..." - Ron Swanson

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

Something profound about only knowing someone by your shared experiences

[user224@lemmy.sdf.org]

At least you remember names. Someone can tell me their name, I'll repeat it as suggested, forget it a few days later anyway.

I'll remember a phone number before someone's name.

Hell, I remember one dude as initials + his age when I met him. I don't know why. Example: If I met John Doe aged 32, there's a chance I'd remember him as "JD32", and forget his actual name.
Shout-out to MK22, I forgot your name again.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

I have a friend who is a legend. If I've been hanging out with someone he will ask their name and if I don't know then he will introduce himself to them ask their name then tell me. Saved me so many times.

[sabata11792@ani.social]

Knowing someones name is a bit too intimate for my taste.

[surfinbird@lemmy.ca]

This is not correct. We wait until someone else says their name.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Aw yes. There was this staging project for 3 months with a few Bolivians (Switzerland, they're rare here) in the first half. Met one of them a month later at a train station, he asked what i do. I, bad at face recognition, explained him that i'm currently in tech school and that staging project going on. The poor guy tears in his eyes, cried.

Btw, those Bolivians were some of the nicest people i've met.

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

out of the ~25 people

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

As long as you didn't meet anyone named Martin Swanson at age 13..

[derpderpingtonishere@lemmy.world]

it's been 5yrs since I knew my neighbor. we still just call each other neighbor. we hang out at least once a week.

[littleborat3@lemmy.world]

I just remember faces for 20 years, no clue about their names.

[therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip]

Can't relate

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

Haha there's a guy I hang out with at the library and I think he's great.

Wanted to invite him to a party and realized I had no way to get in touch. No name or anything.

For like a month, I've been trying to visit the library at the same exact time to see if we bump into each other.

Library stranger, I hope we meet again.