Dear Abby responds to a teacher who needs advice when a former student approaches and asks, "You don't remember me, do you?" DEAR STRUGGLING: When someone approaches you and says, "You don't remember me, do you?" an appropriate response would be, "Refresh my memory!" Said with a smile, it shouldn't be offensive.
Perhaps we can take a lesson from the above advice and not put people on the spot by asking them to remember someone from many years ago.
This potentially embarrassing problem can easily be avoided if the former student simply says, "Mrs. Jones, it's so nice to see you. I'm 'John Smith' and you were my teacher in 1991."
http://news.yahoo.com/teacher-needs-cheat-sheet-recall-former-students-050102007.htmlPerhaps we can take a lesson from the above advice and not put people on the spot by asking them to remember someone from many years ago.
