Wanna Be Remembered? Wear A Kilt.

**Riverkilt** · 8th November 13, 07:37 PM

So I'm down in Phoenix for a one day training at my alma mater - Ottawa University. A professor comes up to me and reintroduces himself and is surprised I can't place him. He taught a workshop two months ago down in Tucson at a conference. He remembered me well...I sorta kinda placed him. Then two ladies approached me separately to say hello and did I remember them from the same conference...I didn't...they remembered me...

Something to be said for wearing the kilt....

**unixken** · 8th November 13, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Something to be said for wearing the kilt....

It wipes our memory?

**Riverkilt** · 8th November 13, 08:44 PM

Crack me up!....maybe....that Tucson conference was about 800 people and in the course of a day at work I see many different people....makes it difficult for ME to remember everyone....

**Highlander31** · 9th November 13, 02:10 AM

That has happened to me few times over the years. Usually it went like this, “Hi, how’ve you been? We met at XYZ conference, you were the guy in the kilt, and I was………”

There is one time that stands out in my mind. In 2003 when I was still working in the SF Bay Area. I had just finished a meeting with a client. As we were leaving his office a gentleman who was seated in the lobby rose to meet my client, who then turned to me and started to introduce us. Before he could finish, the gentleman stated “I know who he is, and he cost me a $1,000.00!” I recognized his face, but had no idea who he was. My mind, moving with what felt like the speed of a rusty trap in the rain, started trying to recall where I knew him from, and how I would have cost him a grand. Before I could come up with the answer, he said we had met the month before at a benefit dinner for brain tumor research. His wife had liked the kilt so much, that she convinced him he should have a kilt. They went to a Scottish shop, and by the time the sales clerk was through, he had purchased a kilt, Argyle jacket with waistcoat, several pairs of hose, and a Balmoral. He then smiled and said he couldn’t wait for his kilt and jacket to arrive from Scotland. We agreed to get together with our wives for dinner after his kilt arrived. We ended up having several dinners together until he accepted a position overseas.

You’re right, Ron. There is something to be said for wearing a kilt.

**Riverkilt** · 9th November 13, 07:36 AM

Great kilt story!

**OC Richard** · 9th November 13, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by unixken

It wipes our memory?

I almost spit out my mocha!

I myself am horrible at remembering names. Luckily I work at a place where everybody wears nametags!

People come up all the time, who I know perfectly well, but I can't place their names. I'll use mnemonic devices to remember names, it's the only way I can.

**tundramanq** · 9th November 13, 08:58 AM

YES, to all the above

My name memory is as good as the little yellow sticky notes I put them on until I know you well. Seems to be a name reset button gets pushed every night here. I call it oldtimers.

**MacCathail** · 9th November 13, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I myself am horrible at remembering names. Luckily I work at a place where everybody wears nametags!

People come up all the time, who I know perfectly well, but I can't place their names. I'll use mnemonic devices to remember names, it's the only way I can.

Me, too. But my salvation has been being born into a military family. Everyone in the world has been either "sir" or "ma'am" my whole life. Everyone else's first word was "mama"; mine was probably "ma'am".

It's not fool-proof but it has been a helpful crutch for a wobbly memory.

Cheers,

-John-

**CeilidhDoc** · 9th November 13, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I almost spit out my mocha!

I myself am horrible at remembering names.

Perhaps it's in the genes. I too cannot remember someone's name until I have known them for a very long time. It drives me crazy and makes me look like I just don't care. It's particularly frustrating given that I can remember the most useless other things that have no bearing on my life after hearing them only once... so bizarre.

Slainte

**Pleater** · 9th November 13, 09:37 AM

Oh - now - vague recollection of someone in promotions, advertising maybe who wore a kilt so that he would be the one of all the applicants who stood out from the rest even before he opened his mouth.

Someone famous.

Maybe infamous.

I remembered he was the one in the kilt anyway - so it worked to some degree.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: