OPINION: "Just Because I Forgot Your Name, It Doesn't Mean I Don't Like You"

By: David Lee Cho
Senior Pastoral Studies Major

"Hey there . . . um . . . young lady! How was your summer!"
"What? No of course not. It's Gabriella right?"

Look, it was a long 3 months ok? And we didn't talk and I'm not sure if you're even one of my friends on facebook. I mean, I'll definitely invite you now, even send you a gift and a friend survey, honest. I really thought you were cool last year and I'd hoped we could continue having our casual acquaintance relationship.

I saw you across the parking lot and I did everything I could to remember your name before you greeted me. I asked my friend Kenny here, but he couldn't remember either. Look, I've got my phone out and I was even scrolling down the list. Your name started with an S, right? I was gonna ask you to call me to double check we still had eachother's cell numbers (secretly hoping your name would pop up on the caller ID) but you didn't even give me a chance Donna. Don? Danielle? erm, Dani?

If that didn't work I was gonna walk with you to Miller Hall talking about myself so as to not reveal how little I know about you. If we'd just made it a little further, you would have taken out your student ID to open the door and I would have asked to see it (cause I have such a HUGE interest in how we looked when we were freshmen). Isn't it enough that if I didn't remember your name, I was at least going to go to huge lengths to figure it out Amy, cough* Amanda? Am I even close?

Ok, fine, I'll just be honest with you. I totally had a crush on you Sophomore year when we had Bible Study Methods together... Sys. Theo. II together, of course. Wait was it you? Maybe Kenny had the crush on you. I can't remember now. Was it you or your sister?

Look, sometimes I just forget important stuff, so please don't take it personally. You can forget my name sometime, no really, I won't even make a big deal about it. Why don't you gimme a call this week and I'll take you to coffee. We'll talk about old times.

Oh what's that? You're new here?

Hi my name is David, what's yours?