Is This What It Means To Get Old?

As I was crossing the street this afternoon after leaving work, I heard, "Hi Mark!" from behind me. I turned to see a middle-aged slightly asian woman coming up at my side.

"Oh hi," I said, not wanting to be rude, but also not having a fucking clue who she was.

She looked familiar, but I couldn't place a name or even come up with how I obviously knew her.

"I didn't know you worked at _____________," she said. "I thought you worked somewhere over there," wildly gesticulating in the general direction we were walking.

Since we both got on the elevator for the employee-only parking garage, she obviously worked for the same entity I did, but I have absolutely no memory of ever having met her.

Was she a current coworker whose computer issue I'd fixed and then promptly forgot? Was she a former coworker who was now working at the same place I was?

I am truly at a loss.

If I run into her again I won't play coy; I'll tell her I can't recall her name or even how we know each other…

One Reply to “Is This What It Means To Get Old?”

  1. That happened to me last week at the store. I just said up front, i'm sorry, I don't remember you name.

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