Ever have a friend, a pretty close friend, whose name you didn't know? [View All]

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I took a course at UT of Dallas back in the late 80s, with about 50 women. I was the only male. One woman who sat next to me was about my age, and we wound up talking a lot about the course, and about politics, and our marriages and stuff (nothing even slightly seedy). We had become friends without ever really being introduced, so I never asked her her name. After a while, of course, I was too embarrassed to ask her name, since I should have already known it.

We ran into each other a lot on campus after that semester, and always talked like old friends. We'd both say "Hey, you!" and "Hi, how are you?" but it was clear she didn't know my name, either, and she never asked. We would hang out at the library, or alter our plans to meet each other between classes or during class breaks when we were in the same building. But we never learned each other's names.

Am I really weird, or is this not too unusual, or both?