Wow! That's what you get from chatting. When I'm in stores, I keep my head down, never make eye contact for fear I'll run into someone who knows me, and I won't know them from Adam!.
never make eye contact for fear I'll run into someone who knows me, and I won't know them from Adam!
THAT is when you look them in the eye and with big smile and wide, welcoming eyes say, 'Hi! How is everything in your world?"
Did that at a Conference in October. She responded with what was going on, doing some filming in the Eastern Panhandle. We parted company with her thinking I knew her. Since I could not place her in the Eastern Panhandle, I asked the person she had been siting next to (who I DID know) who was that? After she told me, instead of going back to my room as I said I was going to do, I waited for her to return to confess I did not recognize her - I confessed that when I was told, I replied the last time I saw her she was at least 200 pounds heavier! She corrected me - it was 250! THAT was something to remark about. Oh, had she still been that heavy I would have realized the filming is what she does - head of the WV Film Office. On most occasions though, the smile, how are you works like a charm.
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