Reframe Forgetting Your Neighbour's Name After All This Time

You have waved at this person for two years and the window for asking their name politely feels like it closed sometime around month three. It has not. This gives two low-awkwardness ways to actually find out, plus one line for when you decide to just ask outright.

Help someone reframe the low-grade embarrassment of still not knowing their neighbour's name after living next door to them for a while. {LENGTH_OF_TIME} is how long they have lived there.

Point out that this is common, fixable, and not the character flaw it feels like at half ten at night when the bins need putting out. Give two low-awkwardness ways to actually find out the name without a direct 'sorry, what's your name again', and one line to say if the direct approach is genuinely the easier option.

Keep it short, warm, and a little wry, not a lecture.