Bryon Daly wrote:
> I'm terrible with names as well, particularly when I first meet people, or
> with casual
> acquaintences (ie: co-workers I almost never interact with, or even obscure
> extended relatives I rarely see). My wife is the exact opposite. She
> always
> remembers people's names and she knows the names of everyone in my
> extended family far better than I do.
I know all of Dan's cousin's kids, at least on his mom's side. He
doesn't. (There are 21 or 22 great-grandchildren of his grandmother's
now, I'm not sure if Lisa's boy has been born yet or not. I only have
problems with a couple of brothers, and once I've seen them both
together, I'm fine for the rest of the visit.)
But I've worked harder at it than he has. Plus I've had more practice
-- when I was little, there was a Thanksgiving that had as many
relatives there as the Thanksgivings we've been to lately, and at that
one when I was little, I *wanted* to know who everybody was and how they
were related, and I was at the generation analogous to the generation
Dan's cousin's kids (and our own) are at.
Julia
not *that* great at names unless I try really hard, and worse at faces
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