The worst thing is for some reason people always remember me.
It's purely anecdotal, but it does seem to be a trend of some sort -- those of us who can't recall faces are the ones with the most memorable faces ourselves? Because I've had high school classmates not just remember my first name, but my full name, and say hello in crowded malls and in the subway and all these so-not-expecting-that locations.
On the other hand, as my sister pointed out, maybe this is a good thing -- that it's been so long since high school and I still look very close to how I looked then? But then again, some days that's not such a great thing to contemplate. Well, at least I don't still have the same hairstyle. (Or hair-color.) But still...
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Date: 4 Dec 2010 05:12 am (UTC)It's purely anecdotal, but it does seem to be a trend of some sort -- those of us who can't recall faces are the ones with the most memorable faces ourselves? Because I've had high school classmates not just remember my first name, but my full name, and say hello in crowded malls and in the subway and all these so-not-expecting-that locations.
On the other hand, as my sister pointed out, maybe this is a good thing -- that it's been so long since high school and I still look very close to how I looked then? But then again, some days that's not such a great thing to contemplate. Well, at least I don't still have the same hairstyle. (Or hair-color.) But still...
heh.