Reply To: Embarrassing Stories

I once mistook someone, call him Stein, for someone else, call him Greenberg. I was chatting with him for five minutes, and then I asked him, “are you related to the Greenbergs from TOronto? I bet people ask you that all the time.” He looked at me like I was nuts. “My name is Stein,” he said. “Well,” I replied, “then I’m probably the first person to ask you that.”