Tim I need to write down names to remember them or put them in my phone or a contact manager, I have to picture the name written out to remember it usually.  A group of people from my office did a class a few years ago to remember names, I wonder if they still use it.  They gave us a demonstration of how they do it.

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Winston thank you sincerely for the comment.  ;- )

Li  right?  Thanks for the comment. I am pretty stubborn and pig headed personally but I can be a good listener if I try really, really hard.

Mr. Waters .... I was going to say having had a Polish last name for part of my life, I don't blame people for mispronouncing, but I always preferred it when people would ask how to pronounce the last name, rather than say it incorrectly over and over. Yet when people misprounce McCabe I think "duh?"

Teral  A lot of times with couples I can remember one's name and not the others.  The one who contacts me is the one whose name I remember because I write notes on the phone or get an email with their name.  Meeting people for the first time in person like at an open house can be tougher for me.  Especially when there are a lot of new people.  I have contacted people from an open house and ended up working with them and they weren't the ones I was thinking of from the open house. 

Thanks for the comment. How do you pronounce your first name?

Missy There have been a lot of changes over time haven't there?

That guy that does the short sales I want to know what the ActiveRain police are cracking down on...  I think the numbers are still growing for ActiveRain, despite three people Douglas knows throwing in the towel or taking a hiatus. The numbers like members, # of blogs, #of blog posts, $ for features like Outside blogs are growing.  It's a network that the guys built as a business they deserve to make a profit on it one day, one way or another.

Thanks for the comment Steve... see I know your name. 

I have had a couple of friends who have left ActiveRain in a snit.  A couple kinda dramatically.

Khash (pronounced Cash? not a bad name for the $ guy in the transaction) Yes, old.  It was written in the 1930's  1931?  He was doing seminars and someone asked if they could transcribe the seminar for him?  Something were updated in the 1980's.  I don't think I have ever read it. 

Thanks Douglas.  I had to check to make sure I had spelled your name correctly.  I did. 

I think once long ago I wrote "Dougles."  or "Dougeles" or something...

Sally Hanson you are funny.

Midori  I think it is ma'am isn't it?  Spellchecker has no problem with the spelling "mam"  though either but isn't that like saying "boob"?  Now I will probably think that when someone "ma'ams"  me on the phone.  I remember working with a woman from South Carolina who on the phone kept calling me "ma'am." When we met and looked at houses we talked about it.  She said she had to because  she did not know how old I was.  I was younger than her so once we met she was able to stop "ma'am"ing me on the phone.   I remember her using my office phone to set up the utilities and she had to go back into her "ma'am" mode because she had no way of knowing whether the women she was talking to were older than her.  I was raised without mannners so it is not something I understood.

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