Elf Sternberg

I found that if I don't really expect to see someone again, I don't encoded the name. In fact, I often don't bother to notice the name in the first point so encoding isn't possible. Retrieval isn't usually a problem for me and given your example it doesn't sound like it is for you either.

So here is my guess: You have infrequent to semi-frequent contact with people who are interesting but that you don't expect to see again. The nature of the contact is informal and there are a lot of social ways of masking the issue.

How does that sound?