Don't you hate it when this happens (or does it only happen to me!!!)

Thank goodness it's not just me
As for learning new names en masse, forget it (literally)!

Think we must all be normal reading the above! Tegan I'm so glad you talk to yourself. I do it all the time.

Happens to me as well when I can't just think of the word I want to use. It's so annoying especially when I'm talking to my doctor. I also seem to get a bit tongue tied and find it difficult to spit out what I want to say. Still the brain still seems to work most of the time

kitty Me too, regularly!

Kitty. Just had that kind of conversation with a friend !

Nice to see you GA.

It's also very nice to see that my friends and I aren't the only ones.

The silly thing is, we can have whole conversations about someone (eg an actor) without any of us actually remembering their name or anything they were in which go along the lines of:

You know, so and so.
Oh, yes, she was in that good film and she's married to what his name.
Oh, yes, wasn't he in that TV programme with thingummybob.
And, his daughter plays that woman in that thing that's just finished!

And, worryingly, we all know what we mean.

Yes, that's what I mean - it even happens to me when I'm talking to DD and I'm sure she thinks I'm losing it...

Ana' I'm ok when I'm talking to myself [which I do a lot these days]. It's when I'm having a conversation with a real person on the phone or face to face that it happens; I just get tongue tied and a bit stuttery [may be nerves perhaps?].

Happens to me every day. People come up to me in our village Tesco and say "Hello". Afterwards, I think, "who the hell were they ?"

I'm finding that too, Tegan. I've been wondering whether it's to do with retirement and not having as many people to talk to during the day. Perhaps we're getting out of practice!

I have to use the calculator on my phone when splitting a bill when out to lunch with just two friends!

I'm finding these days that I stumble over words a lot [which worries me a bit].

I am so glad to see you posting again. I thought you had gone for good!

I do have a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment following an illness some years ago. When I am tired, ill or stressed it's very obvious to my family and friends because I find it impossible to talk lucidly. I not only forget names for things and people, but my word order gets muddled too.
My husband cut short our weekly fellowship meeting last week when it was apparent that I couldn't string a sentence together.

Shysal, I know the feeling ! When I have meals out with friends I do come armed with notes and change in every possible denomination. That way those with only big notes help themselves to my change and the one with plastic only - and there's always one - just tells them to take a third of whatever the more mathematically of us has decided what that is. I sit back and keep quiet. Didn't do A-level maths and usually have to rely on fingers. Btw splitting the bill evenly is the best way. If you didn't have a pudding and they had coffee or you had two wines (don't know how to insert several smileys but please imagine them) then so be it. Long live eating out and gossiping with friends !
The alphabet method usually does it for me. I get very annoyed when a name or word won't come to the fore. As someone said it usually does in the end but I find that particularly frustrating.

We all do it Kitty.At least we can laugh about it .The brain spews random memories whenever it thinks fit! I find past holidays the hardest to remember while Mr Roses has an excellent memory and can recall events and places and hotels, it's all a misty blur to me.

Unconscious processing!! That is, don't think about it and it will come to you later. Restaurant bills we just split by the number of people . I never could do maths and it all works out in the end.

I regularly meet up with two similar-aged friends for lunch. We have the same type of conversations, forgetting words and names.
Then comes the calculation when splitting the bill, including a tip, and sorting out the change! One may have the correct money but the others may only have notes. Our mental arithmetic skills have almost disappeared! If I didn't carry a calculator and pen and paper, we would be stumped, and we all did A level Maths! It is so embarrassing when we pay at the bar for all to hear!

No, kitty not just you.
If I can't remember a name, I go through the alphabet which often helps. Otherwise I find it randomly pops into my head some time later.
Chatting to DD the other day about someone who's name I couldn't think of (possible sister of a male friend of hers) About 36hrs later I texted her with just the name. She understood, as her brain is even more random than mine

Same here, I just had to ask OH 'what do you call those coats we used to wear on scooters', 'Parkas' says he with a cheeky grin..

If I can't remember a name I tell myself to relax and not worry about it and sure enough, sooner or later, it comes back to me. It happens to the best of us!

Forgetting words and names seems to be a daily problem with DH and myself.

Usually the other one can fill in the gap, but not always.