A few years back
I was attending a university launch event. My boss volunteered me and my mate to sit at the door and hand out name badges to people as they came in. Now I wasn't best pleased at this, as I had been working a lot on the particular technology which had resulted in this launch, so thought I deserved better than to be doing a menial task.

I'm also not very good with faces. Not quite prosopagnosia, but I do find it a bit difficult to recognise people.

Anyway, the punters were coming in, and we were asking names and dishing out badges as required, when this bloke came in and stood in front of me.

I looked up.

He looked back.

"Your name, please?" I enquired.

"I", replied the chap, addressing me like something he'd found on his shoe, "am the Principal of the University".

"Oh, right", I said, and rummaged through the badges for his one. "Sorry I didn't recognise you, but I don't suppose you don't know me either, do you?"

He continued on his way.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 9 Sep 2008, 13:55, Reply)