My last name is easy to pronounce, but people tend to misspell it by adding an extra L.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 25 to Life
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Susan W. - Jul 13, 2005 8:41:53 am PDT #484 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
vw bug - Jul 13, 2005 8:45:37 am PDT #485 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
My last name is the easiest thing in the world to spell. People frequently leave off the last "s," though. So, I end up saying, "Like the season, only with an 's' at the end." That usually gets them.
So, my morning with financial services was a nightmare. Bastard had yet ANOTHER story on how this should go, and of course I was missing things. AND, he didn't NEED some of the things that he told me earlier were a must. I was so angry. And to top it off, he said I'd have to come back next week and reschedule all of my doctor's appointments until then. Well, um, NO. I had therapy scheduled at noon, and dammit, I needed it after that. So, I asserted myself and told him he was going to submit this paperwork today or else. Guess who is now pending?
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 8:46:07 am PDT #486 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I end up saying, "Like the season, only with an 's' at the end." That usually gets them.
Hey, are you related to Buffy?
Scrappy - Jul 13, 2005 8:46:45 am PDT #487 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yay, vw, with the asserting! Very impressed.
meara - Jul 13, 2005 8:48:52 am PDT #488 of 10001
I tend to get people adding letters to my first name and making it rhyme with my last name. Which...my parents are fuckedup, but they're not THAT cruel!
Susan W. - Jul 13, 2005 8:49:04 am PDT #489 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Lately I've been able to tell people, "Like the runaway bride."
I really hate that woman for making my name sound stupid and flaky.
t stupidly, flakily worries that employers will subconsciously have a negative impression of my name, because WHAT ELSE COULD EXPLAIN WHY I HAVEN'T BEEN CALLED BACK FOR THAT WORK-FROM-HOME EVENT PLANNER JOB YET, BECAUSE I'M PERFECT FOR IT! PERFECT, I TELL YOU!
Um, carry on....
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 8:49:58 am PDT #490 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a very nice simple last name, very rarely mispelled. It's nice, because if it had been the least bit complicated, my life would have been hell.
-t - Jul 13, 2005 8:51:03 am PDT #491 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Way to assert effectively, vw!
Steph L. - Jul 13, 2005 8:52:10 am PDT #492 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
ita, the mystery of your last name is occasionally the source of great time-killing amusement on my part.
ita Jones?
ita Smith?
ita Bug?
ita McTavish?
ita Humperdinck-McTavish?
I'm fairly sure it's not the last one.
vw bug - Jul 13, 2005 8:54:39 am PDT #493 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Hey, are you related to Buffy?
Opposite season, so nope.
And thank you. I was especially pissed off, because this is the third time I've seen this guy. Each time I've gotten a different story from him, and quite frankly I'm sick of it. So, today I had had enough.