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?
I end up saying, "Like the season, only with an 's' at the end." That usually gets them.
Hey, are you related to Buffy?
Yay, vw, with the asserting! Very impressed.
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!
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....
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.
Way to assert effectively, vw!
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.
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.
My last name confuses everyone. It's pronounced exactly like it's spelled, but there are just some letter combinations that I guess people aren't used to, and they try to make it into something more familiar-sounding. I can understand getting the vowel sounds wrong, but can't figure out why a nation of people raised on phonics can't pronounce the consonants in the order in which they're written.
