Pluggers by Rick McKee for October 21, 2021

Sure it wasn’t Joe Jones, mister?

He bearly remembered that.

Another I hate when that happens moment !

If not when you leave the room, it’ll come to you in the middle of the night.

For some reason, I have a tough time recalling the last name of many people. I had a conversation with my wife yesterday about a certain movie actor, and I couldn’t nail down his last name for several minutes. All I had was Michael…then a blank. Thoughts ran through my head about “Back To The Future”, and Marty McFly, but little else. Putting it on the back burner, I finally hit on the answer. Do you think Jodie Foster is Michael J. Fox’s sister? :)

One couple I know, I never have trouble with Ellen, but the guy’s name always escapes me. He’s also a David.

A while ago I crossed paths with a former coworker and his wife. I recognized her from the picture he had on his desk, and greeted her by name. But it took a while to recognize the old guy she was with, or remember his name. That was rather embarrassing, since we have the same first name.

Sure for a while and then even that don’t work anymore and you end up remembering several days later.

And you promptly forget it when you walk back into the room and approach them.

It happens all the time

It’s a well-documented fact that doorways do all kinds of weird things to your memory – most often making you forget what you came into the room to get…

I can remember the face, what they did for the past 50 years but not their name.

…or during the 3AM trip to the bathroom.

I have “tip of the tongue-itis.” I’ll be working along with a sentence and all of a sudden the next word disappears! Give me ten minutes and it will return, too late for the conversation. Nice to see a guy from Lancaster County got his idea used.