Nomenclature

I've been working in this company long enough to have had a two-week old baby by now had I been pregnant when i joined. And yet, this very funny incident happened today:

A lady I have been randomly bumping into on my way to the namaaz room since I joined ... I bumped into her on ym way out fomr the namaaz room today. She was coming in. I was leaving after having said my Zuhr.

We had one of our usual chats ... how are you .. how's work ... will your magazine be on time ... isn't it awful how few people we have to help us get our work done ... blah de blah de blah.

Turns out she knows a guy who knows a guy who is looking for a job in sales at a magazine. I ask her to drop his CV by my office ... we'll have a look. Okay, she says. Will do. As I turn to leave, she goes ... "Umm, what's your name?"

I tell her, and then she tells me hers.

Nine months and two weeks.

That's the longest I've had an acquaintance whose name I didn't know.