Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 45
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expect you to remember them. You cannot physically do it. Calvin
Ashley, the county judge here, I think has the best retort when
you stick out your hand and meet somebody and he says he has met
you before. Ashley says, "Well gee, I am sorry, I just meet so
many people that I try to remember all of them but I make a
mistake once in a while." And then people are pretty generally
understanding about it. My favorite story on myself concerns
when I was working the dance at the Labor Temple one night. I
had gone out early and worked a city teachers' meeting as the
people came and then went on over to the Labor Temple dance and
I was passing out cards and this kid and his wife sitting at a
table and I said, "Y'all look familiar. We have met before,
haven't we?" They said, "We're in your Sunday School class."
And all you can say, "Oh." You get wrong names on people every
once in a while and people get their feelings hurt. But if they'd
think about it, generally this means that when you meet a person
once, you don't really remember his face because he's one of
maybe a hundred people you meet. Later, you pass them on the
street and perhaps you are thinking about something or don't
recognize them. I have had people get their feelings hurt
because they felt I snubbed them. Really, I didn't intend to
snub them at all.
You lose a lot of privacy in public life. You can't get
mad at people because you are liable to alienate some votes. You
begin to weigh, "Which will do me more good (chuckle)--giving
vent to my temper or going on and accepting the discourtesy?"
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/46/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.