I work for a big corporate, and I'm an idiot
I had a meeting yesterday with a woman I'd not met before. Her name is Charmaine (I know) and she works at a different office. We'd arranged to meet in the open area with tables/chairs...

I wandered over at the given time, saw that there was only one woman (quite attractive actually) sitting by herself, so I walked right over and said:

"Hello, are you Saskia?"

"No, my name's Charmaine."

"Of course it is. I've no idea why I called you that. Sorry, I'm Che."

Great start to a meeting...I've still NO IDEA where the name Saskia came from!

Senility beckons, luckily I can ignore it as I've lost my glasses again and I can't see it.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:12, 7 replies)

i used to know a barmaid called saskia

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:29, closed)

I know your pain...
Sometimes your brain just out-right decides to "issue" someone with a name and will brook no argument. I've had it myself.

Years back I worked with a group that included a lady called Tania.
Tania was cool, and easy going, Tania was real joy to work with...

Only her parents had Christned her Hannah. She was not, and never had been, ever called Tania.

For some reason my brain REFUSED to accept this, I would walk into work and greet her with "Hi Tania...oh sorry Hannah" And spend the rest of the shift doing this...

It might have been funny at first, but after a while you could see she thought was a bit annoying of me (and hell I KNEW this) I cringed inwardly everytime I did it. But I just couldn't get her name to stick, If I need to speak to her I would almost audibly say to my self Hannah, she's called Hannah, remember it's Hannah" Oh hi Tania could you.... I'm pretty sure she began to think it was something malicious on my part.

And to this day I never have worked out why.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:30, closed)

You should have kept
calling her Dave.
(username failed moderation, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:39, closed)

I introduced a very quiet new start to people in our office as David.
His name was James.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:36, closed)

Saskia was quite nice, she had blonde/red hair and a nice demeanor

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:39, closed)

All well and good, but
what did you call her during sex?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:50, closed)

I never talk
with my mouth full!!
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:59, closed)