My last name is easy to pronounce, but people tend to misspell it by adding an extra L.
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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
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.