"Oh." He gives her an openly sympathetic look as a server approaches to pour them water. It's a nice enough establishment that they do so silently, without interrupting the conversation.

"Not exactly a normal problem," he agrees. "It must be extremely unnerving to not remember someone who knows you. It would freak me out." Empathizing is more or less the number one skill for a profiler to have, and Reid doesn't think twice about letting the conversation drift that way. Maybe other people would find this too serious for five seconds into a blind date, but Reid is frankly more comfortable with it than with small talk. There's a reason he doesn't go on dates.