What is your memory like for faces?

[mickle]

I'm absolutely farking terrible at faces, names and phone numbers. But I'll recognise a bike I've worked on or otherwise encountered twenty years hence. Aren't humans weird?

 

[gbb]

I can always recognise my dogs poo when I'm out, I've got a good memory for......ooooh sorry, you said faces, not faeces.

 

[ColinJ]

Try the old ploy of "Excuse me but my friend says he had his first ever kiss with you... " etc and see how she answers.

In my late 40s I spoke to a woman at a funeral. She was someone that I hadn't seen since we were teenagers...

She had a 'thing' going with a friend of mine back then. I had arranged to meet them in the local park and I took a shortcut down a secluded path through a patch of bushes, walked round the corner and stumbled across them bonking like rabbits! I apologised and continued to the meeting place. They turned up about 15 minutes later, dishevelled and grinning.

There I was, over 30 years on, trying to think of something to say...

Me: "It is ages since I last spoke to you. It must have been, er, oh - never mind!"

Her: "No, go on - what were you going to say?"

Me: "Well, sorry, but I was going to say that the last time I spoke to you was that time I interrupted you and xxxx having sex in the bushes near the park!"

She flushed, hesitated, stared down and mumbled that she had NEVER had sex with him!

I thought that perhaps I'd had one of my famous memory lapses. 'xxxx' was also at the funeral so I wandered over to him to check. Sure enough, he remembered me catching them in flagrante delicto!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I can always recognise my dogs poo when I'm out, I've got a good memory for.....

I’ve always said your memory is shite.

 

[Bazzer]

Faces and names, I am crap at. However sounds and voices in particular, I recognise immediately. Sometimes much to Mrs B's surprise, even after knowing me for over 40 years.

 

[Accy cyclist]

How about this. There's a bloke who goes down my local pub for the quiz on a Wednesday night. I asked him the other week,after hearing his accent,where he was from. I couldn't work it out as it sounded a bit 'American'. He told me that he was from somewhere (can't remember where) in southern Ireland. Last night i had to tell him that he had a resemblance to John F Kennedy and that i hoped he wasn't insulted or anything like that. He smiled then told me that he was a very distant relative of that family. Was he used to people saying that to him and he always replies like so,i don't know, but he looks so much like him.

 

[Drago]

I have a terrible memory for faeces, and I never read thread titles properly.

 

[ColinJ]

I have a terrible memory for faeces, and I never read thread titles properly.

Nor other people's posts, apparently...

I can always recognise my dogs poo when I'm out, I've got a good memory for......ooooh sorry, you said faces, not faeces.

 

[ColinJ]

PS The obvious joke would be "I have a crap memory for faeces"!

 

[Drago]

This thread is getting a bit smelly now.

 

[Notafettler]

Excellent I can remember the faces of all my daughters even in a crowded shopping centre, when I am trying to hide from them. Alas they can recognize mine at a great distance even the back of my head.