22 Embarrassing Times People Realized They Didn’t Know Someone’s Name

It’s impossible to  everyone’s name. Most of the time, all we can do is string together a bunch of descriptors and hope for the best.  

One Redditor is familiar with this concept. They forgot the name of their new name for a whole five years until the “French guy next door” finally made a friendship-altering confession: He didn’t know the Redditor’s name, either. 

“We have a good laugh and reintroduce ourselves,” they recalled. 

But this reintroduction wasn’t without a bit of coincidental vindication. “His name was Guy,” they concluded. “I had it right the whole time, he was ‘French Guy next door.’”

Other Redditors weren’t as lucky, however. They detailed the embarrassingly long periods of time they’ve gone without knowing someone’s name, and a lot of them resulted in severely awkward situations.