A woman with an amusingly long name answered

A woman with an amusingly long name answered the phone. I didn't quite catch it, so she repeated her name slowly. Five minutes later she asked me tersely:

"Can you say my name?" My mind went blank. What was her name again? I knew it was long & tricky to pronounce. "If you can say it right, I'll buy whatever it is you're selling."

"So, if I can pronounce your name correctly, you will buy my entire inventory of rat testicles and Hornet Killer?" She nodded. Ok, I thought. I knew it started with Gjyu, but

I wanted to just make something up. I'm cagey like that. I shouted, "Hubert!" She looked at me closely and shook her head. She plucked a hair off my chin and said, "sorry

never really cared about her, her tassles or the horse she rode in. Well, that's not the whole truth, I did see her again, but by that time, I had forgotten everything, including

Iher name, my name and how to dress myself. When I turned up on our date wrapped in a bed spread, she said between sobs, "You never loved me Derek!" "Who's Derek? Who are you?" I

blinked at her stupidly. "You mean you don't know either?" She cried. "We're both amnesiacs!" I said, thrusting a wilted bouquet of poppies at her. "We were made for each other!"

I never found out who I was supposed to meet at the clocktower, and neither did she, but we found each other and that was all that mattered. Except perhaps what we forgot.

And yet..in finding each other, I will always be reminded that I cannot forget that I will always remember that I remembered forgetting something that may have mattered.