Who? Me?
One week ago a total stranger recognized me and started talking to me. Then it turned out he was the younger brother of a girl I was on a same class when I was 13-15, and who was at scouts with me before that.
This week I was printing stuff at computer classes at uni, and a boy asked me if I was brother J's sister. He had played Finnish baseball with J a few years ago. And he recognized my face, and then got the confirmation that was needed when the printer showed my last name.
Wtf.
How could they recognize me? I was completely surprised, because I'd never do that.
I know I'm really bad with people's faces, in the sense that I'm so concentrated on myself that I don't pay much attention to what is happening around me.
Example: I was on a Scout Leadership Course or whatever, with people I had never met before, and it turned out that one boy in my group was in the same school as I, one year younger. I was surprised, because I didn't remember him, but he said he had seen me before there. Then, when we went back to school, I still didn't notice him until he explicitly greeted me.
And that wasn't a unique case. It happens to me often that I don't notice people, unless they're good friends of mine.
But these boys did. The first boy noticed someone who was friends with her sister years ago, and the latter someone who is a sister of a friend he last met years ago. I could never do that.
Would you? Are you also bad with paying attention to people who aren't directly in contact with you, like me, or are you such a people person that you'll recognize someone who you met only once?
(Today I borrowed a book from library called www.liisanblogi.net (Liisa's blog), because I'm just interested about blogs. But the comments people leave in that? ARE SO WANKY. Now I'm wondering if in Finnish teenagers' blogs comments are really like that. If that's the case, I'm really happy to be here instead of there.)
This week I was printing stuff at computer classes at uni, and a boy asked me if I was brother J's sister. He had played Finnish baseball with J a few years ago. And he recognized my face, and then got the confirmation that was needed when the printer showed my last name.
Wtf.
How could they recognize me? I was completely surprised, because I'd never do that.
I know I'm really bad with people's faces, in the sense that I'm so concentrated on myself that I don't pay much attention to what is happening around me.
Example: I was on a Scout Leadership Course or whatever, with people I had never met before, and it turned out that one boy in my group was in the same school as I, one year younger. I was surprised, because I didn't remember him, but he said he had seen me before there. Then, when we went back to school, I still didn't notice him until he explicitly greeted me.
And that wasn't a unique case. It happens to me often that I don't notice people, unless they're good friends of mine.
But these boys did. The first boy noticed someone who was friends with her sister years ago, and the latter someone who is a sister of a friend he last met years ago. I could never do that.
Would you? Are you also bad with paying attention to people who aren't directly in contact with you, like me, or are you such a people person that you'll recognize someone who you met only once?
(Today I borrowed a book from library called www.liisanblogi.net (Liisa's blog), because I'm just interested about blogs. But the comments people leave in that? ARE SO WANKY. Now I'm wondering if in Finnish teenagers' blogs comments are really like that. If that's the case, I'm really happy to be here instead of there.)