Being Memorable

My friends and I are memorable. Our names rhyme and one of us is truly one of those characters that you rarely get to meet. The rest of us are along for the ride... usually. When we're together apparently we create an exponentially memorable effect.

It was a going away party for our characters on Friday so it was a night of tradition. Plowing around town to shake the hands of bartenders we have chatted with on a first name basis. If you do not know the name of at least one bartender in your town you either 1)never go out 2)are a selfish ass when you go out or 3) you really really should just be friendlier. These guys work hard and they like to be treated like real people, learn and remember their names.

Sitting there to see another bartender we knew, we quickly make friends with a guy who has just been hired. He looks familiar to us all so I ask. "Where else have you worked? You look familiar."

"I've worked all over," he replies, "but YOU would know me from _____" (I'll leave out the name to protect all involved from nothing that needs to be protected). It was a peculiar answer. We probe further and find out he hasn't worked there in a while so we wonder how he would remember us.

My friend heads to the bathroom so I ask our new friend, "Do you remember us or were you just guessing."

"Oh, no. I remember YOU."

"Was I wearing a blue dress?" I asked. I was thinking it must have been another going away party when, for a laugh, I wore one knockout dress. That night I ended up dancing around singing journey at the top of my lungs in that dress. Nothing embarrassing but wonderfully memorable!

"No, you were wearing that shirt and you guys were having fun."

So this guy, remembers my friends and me from a night out over a year ago. A night that isn't memorable to any of me for any reason, but apparently I was wearing the same shirt. When my friend returned we racked our brains for anything that would make us troublesome enough to remember. There is nothing. We are just nice, funny, and friendly enough that people remember us for a long time after we're gone.

It's a good life.