Published by Aparna on 26 Jun 2008 at 03:24 pm
What’s your name?
Well that is supposed to be the question that all of us ask when we meet someone for the first time. But imagine knowing a person for more than a year and talking with her regularly and still not knowing her name at all! She comes in my bus and her stop is same as mine. I had been chatting with her while waiting for the bus all these days, till it recently struck me one day that I didn’t know her name at all! When I asked the others in the stop, they too didn’t know! They forgot it seems. After knowing a person for such a long time, the very thought of asking what her name is, was too embarrassing. I finally managed to see her ID card today and got to know her name!
D.K.Suriya Narayanan on 26 Jun 2008 at 3:53 pm #
My name is D.K.Suriya Narayanan
Benly on 26 Jun 2008 at 5:00 pm #
Whats with name and today? Found another interesting article here: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/whats-there-in-a-name-just-some-embarrassment/67766-19.html
BTW, its very normal these days i guess. I know a few people to whom i talk too, in the cab, in the stop… But i dont know them by name
arvind on 26 Jun 2008 at 5:20 pm #
ROFL . may be u were too indifferent because it was a girl rather than a guy
??
anyways does she know ur name
Sathej on 26 Jun 2008 at 6:26 pm #
Sathej
Arunk on 26 Jun 2008 at 7:23 pm #
But you had it easy than Seinfeld here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_VkNa7alqI
puranjoy on 26 Jun 2008 at 8:17 pm #
Sneaky Aparna!
Of course, the obvious question arises, does she know your name?
I had written a paragraph extolling the virtues of having a short (and sweet) name like yours as opposed to a mouthful one like mine, but thought the better of it. Of course, the obvious question arises, why did I write this info then?
aparnas on 27 Jun 2008 at 10:12 am #
Lol.. Thank Goodness you got to see her ID card and save yourself the blushes..
So now the bus-stop-girl-friend has a name eh??
Harii on 27 Jun 2008 at 11:16 am #
Just Curious.. What’s her name??
T U D on 27 Jun 2008 at 12:38 pm #
Ha ha ha …
I forgot my friend’s b’day date and there was absolutely no way i could find that becasue there was no orkut or anything. I finally managed to find it in the pretext of looking at his driving licence … It was a very embarassing …
charan on 27 Jun 2008 at 5:12 pm #
its really amazing!! testifies : life is at times stranger than fiction !!
vishnu on 27 Jun 2008 at 6:28 pm #
this isn’t new.. there were quiet a lot of instances when i inquired about it..
well this does happen there is nothing embarassing about it..
and moreover it should have taken a brave effort to put it here in a blog were bashing is always expected
Aravind on 28 Jun 2008 at 10:54 am #
identity theft
Niyaz on 29 Jun 2008 at 5:14 pm #
hehe intresting aparna [:)] !!!!!!!
Aparna on 03 Jul 2008 at 10:10 am #
Suriya,
Benly,
Glad to know that am not alone
Arvind,
I don’t know.
Sathej,
Arun,
Am yet to watch that video. Will watch it soon
Puranjoy,
I don’t know whether she knows my name or not.
>> why did I write this info then?
You should only answer that
Aparna,
Yes
Aparna on 03 Jul 2008 at 10:10 am #
Harii,
Am not answering that. What if by any chance, she sees this page sometime?
Dinesh,
That was one clever way of finding it out
Charan,
Welcome to my blog!
Vishnu,
Oh. But I won’t make the mistake of not asking a person’s name first from now on.
Aravind,
Niyaz,
puranjoy on 07 Jul 2008 at 11:36 am #
@aparna,
know the term “rhetorical question”
and before you ask, yes that was also one of those.
Aparna on 07 Jul 2008 at 11:56 am #
Puranjoy,
