Just Remembered

I wasn't feeling too great when I wrote my blog about giving blood and I forgot to write about something really weird that happened while I was there. When I first arrived they asked me to fill out some paperwork to make sure I wasn't likely to have Aids, HIV, Hepatitis or CJD. They then used that form to register me as a blood donor. To do this, of course, they need to take your name and address etc too, which was all done by a nurse. She took my surname, and asked how to spell it. Fair enough, there are several different spellings of my surname. Then my first name, and she asked whether it was "Matthew" or "Mathew". Then came the weird part. She looked at me and said, "and your middle name is Tom?"

"Thomas, yeah" I said. She wrote this down. Then, after a moment something occurred to me. I'd not told her my middle name was Thomas. Okay she'd not said Thomas exactly, but Tom is disturbingly close. "How'd you know that? Did I just tell you?" I thought perhaps there was a chance I had just told her and then instantly forgotten.

"No, you didn't tell me. It was just a guess."

Now that, in my opinion, is weird.