The other day I called a realtor about a duplex for rent, and after getting some basic detail about the place, he asked for my name and number to call me back to set up an appointment. It went something like this:
"What's your name?"
"Lindsay."
"Newcomer."
"Newcomer."
"Oh! Well, ha! That's funny! I thought you meant you were a newcomer to the community or something! Haha!"
It doesn't really annoy me when people do this, but I just don't really understand the confusion. I of course am aware that newcomer is an actual word, but do new people really ever introduce themselves as newcomer right after saying their first name? I moved around a fair amount growing up, and as a Thurman, I never introduced myself as "Hi, I'm Lindsay. Newcomer." Maybe at the most my parents said something like, "We're the Thurmans, and we're newcomers to Houston."
Am I crazy? Has anyone ever introduced themselves at a new place with "newcomer" directly following their name? If you have, please stop. It's my name, not yours. Just kidding.
5 comments:
Thats great. We get a lot of confusion with our name too. For some reason, people feel free to adlib our last name: LittleTON, LittleFOOT, Little____. Its LittleFIELD.
To make matters worse, I'm married to a man named DIRK. We get all kinds of variations of that: Derrick, Dick, Kirk.
It always makes for a fun time when meeting someone for the first time. I feel your pain.
--Kathy
Lindsay,
that's when you sing Dr. Cox's famous, "Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.....wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! You're wrong....You're wrong...You're wrong...."song.
=)
I don't think you should get upset about people messing up your name, Lindsey. . . .
I understand Lindsay... and I don't think you're crazy :)
You think YOU got it rough! I had to have my name legally changed--I was born Johnny Comelately.
Count your blessings, Newcomer! :)
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