Glitch

Hello.

I like my mind.  It's reasonably intelligent, and (I'd like to think) pretty witty.  I seem to have really good recall abilities.  Books, movies, songs, what have you I can bring forth a title from a line or two, or vice versa.  But there is one area that I am terrible with my recall:  names.  I forget and confuse them constantly, and it is a source of embarrassment.

There are people I have known for years whose names I cannot recall.  It's even worse for those I just meet.  Hell, my name recall is so bad, I occasionally the names of my sister and one of my friends.  Do you know what it is like to call your best friend Drema and your sister Tina?  The looks I get.  I mean, it's not like Drema is a common name.  This also happens, to a far lesser extent, with the names of films (Wings of Mayonnaise, anyone?), but again, it is not as often.

I don't do it out of disrespect, it's just the way my brain glitches on me.  The only way I can cope is to just call everybody 'Buddy' or 'Boss'.  Sure, it makes me sound more personable, but it just bugs the hell outta me.  I should be better than this.  I do NOT like when my mind doesn't work properly, because it raises fears of what most likely lies ahead for me if I survive the myriad of physical ailments I have to look forward to in the next couple decades...

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...and look, yet AGAIN I have gone down Depressing Avenue.  Lovely...

So anyways, it's like this:  I will try my best to remember your name, but please understand if I mess it up.  

I am trying, after all, Buddy.