Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 06, 2024

THIS! THIS HAPPENS TO ME ALL. THE. TIME!

Cats is not so good with memory anyways.

I guess I have the opposite issue. I read the obituary from my hometown, and I recognize the name, but I can’t recall the face. “So many people have come and gone / their faces fade as the years go by…” — Boston, “More Than a Feeling”

It was Groucho who said: “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” I must have made a lot of exceptions, because I’ve forgotten a lot more faces than I’ve remembered.

Why did I come into the Room for ? Oh Yea , to look at the pictures ;-)

LOL… out of film. Too funny.

My memories were etched in sandstone. The winds of Time have eroded them.

I’ve always been so bad with names & faces, I recognize myself 2 out of 3 times…

I never had a photographic memory; I’ve always been especially terrible about people’s names; now it’s just getting worse. Slowly, I hope.

If you can see someone’s face in your memory bank, you at least still retain the prints. The name is probably on the back but you have difficulty flipping the picture over to read it.

It’s happened to me all my life. After meeting someone, 30 seconds later or sooner I can’t remember their name. However, if I run into them in the street a year later I can remember all the details of our conversation, but still not their name. Go figure.

The guy from SNL…Will Furrell.

Photographic memory, yes….however, your LABEL MAKER wasn’t as developed!!

I have a photographic memory. But nothing ever develops.

I’m definitely out of film.

I’m a card carrying member o’ that club!

“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull the zipper up, finally you forget to pull the zipper down” — George Burns

Oh yeah, this one is sooo true :D

I ran out of film about 1965/66.

I wonder if the submitter has a brother called Jack.

No, no; the film is fine. It’s the CAPTIONING I have a problem with. sigh.

It ain’t the lack of film — it’s the lack of hypo (fixer, q.v.).

Too bad he’s not an elephant.

It takes a few milliseconds for each item in the brain’s memory scan. How many thousands of faces have you seen in your lifetime? Don’t worry about it. Twenty four hours later, in the shower, you will blurt out the name. :)

Fortunately, (?) I saved the negatives.

Have always been the one with the memory. Atually see things play out in my head as remember them.

About a year ago I found out that I have a hidden memory – forgotten by me. May have many of them, but this was something significant enough for not only my husband & sister to remember, but also her husband. They have the basic idea of the type of thing it was, none can remember details. Not knowing the details does not bother me – what does is not remembering anything about this ever happening. It is the sort of thing which is rare enough for me that I should remember it.

Since then my mind has playing games – I now have trouble remembering so many day to day things.

I can remember when I broke my collar bone when I was 3 years old – from both my point of view and third party point of view. This is my earliest memory and I remember (can see in my head) going to the doctor, his grandson visiting me at home (my age and a friend and it was just a few houses up the block).

I am not one to lose memories and not remembering that anything significant medical happened to me, let alone what it was is driving me crazy(er) and I can’t sleep at night. No way to find out what it was and I just have to live with – but what concerns me is the little now things which have started disappearing from my everyday mind since this was mentioned.

It’s not that you’re out of film, the soundtrack is missing.