Didge Doo

We've all known the occasional unforgettable person but, casting your mind back, who is the most FORGETTABLE person you ever met? (You may have to think hard but there are no prizes for "I forget".)

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Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

Didge, 

While this Q presents an interesting mental task  -remembering a forgettable person-  I'm afraid the paradox disqualifies anyone I actually do remember.

That said, my most honest reply would be something like "What's-his-name, the friend of that one guy, in the blue suit". 

No-names always seem to wear blue suits. Like social camouflage. 

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
That was always going to be the problem and, clearly, those people who are remembered -- even for the wrong reasons -- are not forgettable. Still, paradoxes are fun. I'll be interested to see who names whom. ;-)
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
I agree.
Mountain  Man Profile
Mountain Man answered

An extremely arrogant police officer who pulled me over when he seen me drinking a bottle of sarsaparilla and assumed it was beer. When he seen what it was, I got a big lecture on wasting a police officers time. As if I did it on purpose.

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Jann Nikka answered

My ex-husbands and 99.99.99% of all the people I came in contact with when I cross the Red River from OK into Texas, 30 years ago😝 and especially all the ones I worked with for years at the bank😝.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
It sounds like a lot of people to forget, Jan, but you're right of course. We don't recall the forgettable people. :)
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
Didge, so true, I've not had blessings or good luck or Karma on meeting "GOOOD" QUALITY People 😔
Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Hi Didge,

We have had some examples of forgettables come up in Blurtit questions lately...people where I would really wish to "unsubscribe" (Danae's word) and move on...

Wasn't it yesterday, someone (maybe it was Adele?) asking about someone who was rich and thought he was so wonderful because he was willing to associate with poor folks...

And then some time ago, N.Harmonik's Q about a person who told non-Caucasians they weren't up to some kind of job because of their race, but he took care to say this respectfully...

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Yes...I wish I had actually kept a list of who they were and the wonderful things they said, now that we will prolly never meet them again...
I do go back to my Ask file for some of that, thankfully I often kept usernames along with their fine comments.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
A few weeks ago I actually posted a list of original quotes from Askers. One I remember from Nero's Mom was, "Happiness is having a shadow when there's no sun."

I've also kept a lot of the wisdom people contributed in their answers. When I get home later I'll have a look and see if there's anything there you might be interested in, though you kept a lot yourself.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I really liked Nero'sMom...and did not see the negative comments or at least do not recall. Actually, each of us goes into a strange mind state once in a while...I certainly do, then wonder where THAT came from!
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Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

I can think of a few people from Ask that were certainly forgettable ! Don't know where they went but glad they didn't come here.

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Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn commented
Glad I never saw that! I would have gotten kicked off again ! LOL
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I doubt it, Rooster. Anything you said would have been deemed justifiable. If the mods had seen that particular discussion they'd have deleted it.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn commented
Never had much interaction with her but do remember the name.
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Darik Majoren answered

Kid named "Mark" in third grade . . . Just remember his first name and where he lived.

The guy who had a crush on my wife when we first started dating . . . He would keep coming around to see if she was free to do some things "As a Friend" . . .

Girl who had a huge crush on me in Youth group . . . I am really trying to remember her name . . . I think it was Ray . . Short for Rayanne maybe?

KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

Hard to remember some one forgettable, but my 5th grade leather comes closest.  .  I can clearly remember all of my other teachers thru my first semester of college.  All I can recall of him is his name and the fact that he wasn't very good with 5th graders. 

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

I have 3 current contenders. 

They are running in a pack---very little separation among them.

No single one has yet to distinguish himself.

I'll keep you posted.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Desmond Bagley once wrote that a nebbish is a person with so little personality that when they leave a room you get the feeling that somebody just walked in. Your three non-memories seem to fit the description.
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Nice analogy.

These three are definite personalities---two alike, one slightly dissimilar---but when you have seen one "spot on" caricature, you are all too familiar with the genre---and the "free image of the day" fails to satisfy.

But while my somatic reaction may be not to forget, my intellect and will allow me to do so. (But there is still work to be done.)

Kind of like Ghostbusters---I have a special Containment Unit in my personal firehouse.
dragonfly forty-six Profile

Well I can't remember the names, so I'm going to go with the type.

The goody two shoes who had to always tell on you, so she could get brownie points. The one who was hall monitor. The fun sucker. The one who was so exacting when it came to the rules. The one who was all wood and no water. The one who told and then would smile in an evil way, behind the teachers back. The hypocrite. The one whose sickly smile you wanted to wipe away with your closed fist.

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Aldrich Ames answered

My 15 year old cousin who "Accidentally" SMASHED my 5 year old ps3 a week ago. "Accidentally"....She now has a knocked out tooth due to....Unknown reasons. She was and will be the most forgettable person on the planet. It's just what she did to my ps3 was cruel. :(

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
You may have to work at forgetting her, AA. Of course, she's equally likely to work at forgetting you. :)
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames commented
I don't think I should've knocked her tooth out for obvious reasons. But my relatives now hate me even more..Which is nice. I have a huge temper. But yeah, I'm sure we'll have to work on forgetting each other. Also, she actually smashed it because she couldn't win a game against my fiancée in street fighter 4....
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Michael Poland answered

Hillary and Bill.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
It's hard to call a US president forgettable -- especially an unprecedented husband and wife team. Of course, that's not to say that some of their actions might not be better forgotten.

One thing is for certain. It'll be a long time before we forget the 2016 election campaign.
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
I would have loved to had met them face to face as you did and shake their hands. Wow.
Awesome to have meet face to face with an ex United States President and his wife a former Secretary of State. Awesome.
Tris Fray Potter Profile

My Maths teacher from last year.  Year 9 Maths is a hole in my mind.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
You've not only forgotten the teacher, you've forgotten the math as well. :)
Tris Fray Potter
Tris Fray Potter commented
Yeah, the majority of maths that I remember now is from grade 8, so, he wasn't the greatest teacher ever.

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