Try to remember her name
May 23, 2008
Men are not as smart as women when it comes to memory recording and retrieving. They don’t even come near in noticing minute details and storing them for future reference.
Hilary Bainemigisha
Men are not as smart as women when it comes to memory recording and retrieving. They don’t even come near in noticing minute details and storing them for future reference.
But women don’t know this. Thus a girl who tells a man her name expects him to remember it every time they meet again even if the chances of meeting again were remote at the onset.
Take me for instance. I am male, which means that chances of me remembering where we met are as close to possibility as Derby is to the English Premiership trophy.
You would rather ask me how many goals Pere scored in his career. But about the names of all my ex girlfriends? No way, I wouldn’t easily access those files.
If you share this miniature inconvenience with me, don’t worry, we are innocent; it was the way we rolled off the assembly line. But you will be blamed if you let this flaw interrupt your dating life.
You spend a quality evening with this girl you meet at a residential seminar and the next morning, you are not sure whether she is Gloria, Jannet or Susan. So, you go: What is your name again…..?! Stupid man! You are a disgrace to mankind. Can’t you simply ask her for a business card for souvenir purposes? Or, if she is a Muganda, ask for her totem, it could help in the elimination strategy if there are several names in contention.
Romance has also accorded us bail-out pans in times of such blackouts. When you can’t be sure of her name the next day, call her endearing references like Sweet or Dear (never my Arsenal).
You can even use food names like Honey or Pie (never Pork). Birds like Dove or Crested Crane (never Owl – however much you love it). Animal names like Bunny or Kitten (never Warthog – refer to Owl above) and others like Dynamite but strictly if she is not dry.
Meanwhile you do your underground study to get her real name from other friends, some register or, should conditions allow, her bag.
It may be on her bu-papers, ATM card or business cards. Alternatively, ask her email address. Chances that it will bear her name or part of it are a bit on the high side. That may remind you of the name she told you a few hours ago. Never show her that you forgot her name in a hurry and never expose yourself to the risk of calling her a wrong name.
When in doubt, you would rather call her Tigress than somebody else’s name. At least for Tigress you can justify it with 10 romantic facts about a tigress which, by the way, don’t have to be correct. Chances are that she won’t be working with the Uganda Wildlife Association.
Otherwise, avoid asking her for the name she told you before when you are obviously picking interest in her.
We all judge the other gender using our own standards and she will never believe that you forgot her name because it was not among the Man U players’ squad.
Men are not as smart as women when it comes to memory recording and retrieving. They don’t even come near in noticing minute details and storing them for future reference.
But women don’t know this. Thus a girl who tells a man her name expects him to remember it every time they meet again even if the chances of meeting again were remote at the onset.
Take me for instance. I am male, which means that chances of me remembering where we met are as close to possibility as Derby is to the English Premiership trophy.
You would rather ask me how many goals Pere scored in his career. But about the names of all my ex girlfriends? No way, I wouldn’t easily access those files.
If you share this miniature inconvenience with me, don’t worry, we are innocent; it was the way we rolled off the assembly line. But you will be blamed if you let this flaw interrupt your dating life.
You spend a quality evening with this girl you meet at a residential seminar and the next morning, you are not sure whether she is Gloria, Jannet or Susan. So, you go: What is your name again…..?! Stupid man! You are a disgrace to mankind. Can’t you simply ask her for a business card for souvenir purposes? Or, if she is a Muganda, ask for her totem, it could help in the elimination strategy if there are several names in contention.
Romance has also accorded us bail-out pans in times of such blackouts. When you can’t be sure of her name the next day, call her endearing references like Sweet or Dear (never my Arsenal).
You can even use food names like Honey or Pie (never Pork). Birds like Dove or Crested Crane (never Owl – however much you love it). Animal names like Bunny or Kitten (never Warthog – refer to Owl above) and others like Dynamite but strictly if she is not dry.
Meanwhile you do your underground study to get her real name from other friends, some register or, should conditions allow, her bag.
It may be on her bu-papers, ATM card or business cards. Alternatively, ask her email address. Chances that it will bear her name or part of it are a bit on the high side. That may remind you of the name she told you a few hours ago. Never show her that you forgot her name in a hurry and never expose yourself to the risk of calling her a wrong name.
When in doubt, you would rather call her Tigress than somebody else’s name. At least for Tigress you can justify it with 10 romantic facts about a tigress which, by the way, don’t have to be correct. Chances are that she won’t be working with the Uganda Wildlife Association.
Otherwise, avoid asking her for the name she told you before when you are obviously picking interest in her.
We all judge the other gender using our own standards and she will never believe that you forgot her name because it was not among the Man U players’ squad.