Re: SHOULD I FEEL EMBARRASSED?

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@RescueLover wrote:

@jellyBEAN🌻

I would have told that lady…

I’m So Sorry I’m bad at names, but yet if someone tells me their dog’s name
I’ll NEVER forget it !! 😜

AND for ME that would be the truth ! 😂

@RescueLover,

me too!

I always ask the dog's name which I will remember and then try to remember to be polite and ask the owners name after much saying hi to the dog lol!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

Bhvbum · ‎07-18-2010

@Desertdi wrote:
@jellyBEAN

No. You should feel INSULTED by a very rude and arrogant person. di

Insulted? My goodness you must be insulted all the time if you take minor slights like this so seriously.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

@on the bay wrote:
@RescueLover wrote:

@jellyBEAN🌻

I would have told that lady…

I’m So Sorry I’m bad at names, but yet if someone tells me their dog’s name
I’ll NEVER forget it !! 😜

AND for ME that would be the truth ! 😂

@RescueLover,
me too!
I always ask the dog's name which I will remember and then try to remember to be polite and ask the owners name after much saying hi to the dog lol!

That’s me too!

I have a horrible memory. My husband would talk about people in our past and I'd look at him blankly. Then he'd say, "They were the ones that had the little black Poodle named Duchess".

"Oh yes! I remember them!"😂😂

reiki604 · ‎03-09-2010

Life today would be so much easier if we didn’t look for insults and everything anyone says to us. Relax and enjoy life.

'I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man'.......Unknown

lgfan · ‎10-19-2012

The person who is being overly sensitive is the woman who corrected you about her name. If it was ok with her why did she even bother to bring it up at the meeting. I would just let the incident roll off me and move on.

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

You only indicated saying "Hello" when seeing her out and about in your neighborhood. You didn't say you said any name. Nor did she say your name.

From what I see you didn't call her by her correct name at this gathering so you apparently heard someone being called the incorrect name. Then mistakenly called her that name.

You did not say she said you called her an incorrect name when out walking.
It looks as though she said you used the wrong name at that moment.
So it looks like you heard another name during introductions and mistook it for hers.

It happens and she certainly was right to correct you. I'm not reading nastiness in her response and the quiz about names is a laugh I've heard at retreats and other gatherings where participants introduce themselves.

I think calling her rude etc. is out of line. It does not appear the incorrect name happened before this event.

I do not know your sensitivity level but if we cannot laugh at ourselves then we would be looking at the whole world against us.

It happened. It's over.
Relax and have some ice cream.🍦

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

I don't believe the person meant to insult you, just fix your mistake. I would have thanked her.

ajsidney12 · ‎02-10-2013

I would never call out someone that I am formally being introduced to, and in front of a group of people, about an error the person may/may not have made about my name. That is not the time, and is foolish to be brought up.

The person made the moment about them, and not You meeting this group for the first time. Some people, as is evidenced by Q hosts, podcasters, reality stars, countless other "public figures" and regular people do not know when to keep things private or save the information for a one-on-one conversation when it is apropos, and that is only if it ever really bothered them to begin with.

I do think the other people saying there would be a test on names at the end were being saracastic and funny!! Seems they have that "outspoken" person pegged.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

Whether or not you are being overly sensitive...I don't know. Whether or not she was being snarky...I don't know that either...it may have been a one time thing so, at this point, I would give her the benefit of the doubt.

Lakelife62 · ‎05-09-2023

OP- She may feel more embarrassed than you do at this point. You have nothing to feel embarrassed about at all and she may have just blurted out what she said and it came out wrong and is now feeling the same way you are.

I'd chalk it up to an innocent but awkward exchange that most everyone but you and possibly her, has forgotten about by now.