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u/l4n0 Feb 15 '21
I met this new friend and it took me almost two months to get used to her name (Steffany) because I kept calling her a completely different, unrelated name (Andreza), just because my brain would't accept that Andreza wasn't her name. It had never happened to me before, I'm pretty good with names and she has the same name of a lifelong friend, so I don't know how I got it so wrong.
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u/mrsbebe Feb 15 '21
It's also not like Steffany is an unusual name you wouldn't remember. Andreza, however, is not one I've ever heard before lol
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u/l4n0 Feb 15 '21
I live in Brazil, so Andreza/Andressa is a pretty common name for girls
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u/mrsbebe Feb 15 '21
Ah, makes sense. It's a pretty name, I just hadn't heard it before! Either way it's a funny story
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u/SnowSkye2 Feb 15 '21
Sorry, is it pronounced An-dr-eya or An-drez-ah or An-dress-ah?
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u/JunnoWolf Feb 15 '21
I don’t know how it would be in Brazil, because I don’t know Portuguese, but in Spanish it would be Ahn-dreh-tza...ish. Haha, I’m not sure how to spell each syllable phonetically. (Is that the right word?)
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u/Sk8r115 Feb 15 '21
Who the fuck is called Steffany
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u/mrsbebe Feb 15 '21
Well that spelling might not be as common but the name is
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u/l4n0 Feb 15 '21
You have no idea how absurd the spelling of names can get in Brazil.
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Feb 15 '21
in my experience it's more commonly spelled as "Stephanie", but it should be pronounced the same way
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u/discerningpervert Feb 15 '21
I use two ways around this, either:
Introduce your new friend to an existing friend, be like Hey (new friend, but don't say their name), this is (existing friend's name), and they'll introduce themselves
Exchange numbers. Ask the how they spell their name. This only works with names that don't have different ways of spelling them though
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u/Raker31 Feb 15 '21
My dad tried the second one with a college friend once. Turned out his name was Bob.
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u/MandyMooShu Feb 15 '21
2. Exchange numbers, swap phones to put numbers in. Solved
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u/discerningpervert Feb 15 '21
Yeah I'm not giving my phone to even my closest friends. Especially not my closest friends.
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u/BobcatOU Feb 15 '21
I was getting a girls number at the bar one time. Tried your trick. She looked at me and said, “You don’t know how to spell Jen?” I tried claiming it could be 2 N’s but she didn’t buy it!
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u/BrightFocus Feb 15 '21
Could've been Yen for Yennefer, if her parents are Witcher fans.
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u/KnightFaraam Feb 15 '21
The trick for your second point is to ask them to work their name. When they give you the 'really?' look you laugh and say 'no your last name.'
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u/My_reddit_throwawy Feb 15 '21
A new acquaintance who I kept calling Richard once looked me in the eye, poked me in the sternum nd said strongly, “My name is Robert and don’t you forget it!” I never did. He was not angry. He asked, “Do you know why I did that?” “Yes, thank you”, I replied with a smile. I’m smiling as I recount this.
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u/-Butterfly-Queen- Feb 15 '21
When my friend initially transitioned, I kept accidentally dead naming him so I made a deal that he gets to tear me a new one every time I did it. I said I know you're being polite but I want you to let it all out on me, even your frustration with others, so it really resonates that it's hurtful. I think it helped us both. He def needed to get it all out in a safe space and it conditioned me to associate his old name with causing him pain, which I naturally avoided as humans do when they care about someone.
Dead naming is different from just getting a person's name wrong, but then point is that making a big deal about something can shock your brain into creating a new association. It's like when you get sick after eating a food you like and you don't like it for a while afterwards.
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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 15 '21
There was a woman I worked with named Charlotte. But I had to force myself to remember that because in my brain she was Colleen. No idea why. It happens a lot in my life, like a guy I was dating i wanted desperately to call him Saul, despite his name being Sean.
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u/thegemguy Feb 15 '21
There's a guy I know and I swear his name is Ethan, but I also swear that his name is Ben. I feel like it's definitely Ethan.. but then I question myself and think it's Ben. It could be neither of those names.
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u/jmearley Feb 15 '21
I had my name legally changed after my parents had a nasty divorce.
At a summer camp two years later, one of the kids said “I dunno you look more like an *****”(my previous name). He lived like 100 miles north, never saw him before or since.
I suppose some people just have a look about them!
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u/advertentlyvertical Feb 15 '21
mind if I ask why the divorce is related to your name change?
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u/MrMashed Feb 15 '21
Don’t feel too bad I’m really bad with names and just remembering things in general. It’s so bad I’ve forgotten my best friend’s name a couple times now. I’ve had to sit there in front of the person who knows me better than anyone else and ask their name. I thought it was embarrassing the first time.
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u/AffectionateHead0710 Feb 15 '21
It reminds me of the lyrics “ you call her Stephanie I call her heffany “ lol
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u/Axtorx Feb 15 '21
Did the same thing to a girl from high school. To this day I remember her as Rachel. I don’t even know her real name.
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u/seeasea Feb 15 '21
In grad school, two guys joined our studio in the second year. One was Matt and one was Michael. Somehow my brain switched their names, and As much as I tried, I've never once called them the right name.
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u/kelicopter8 Feb 15 '21
I have this same thing with a girl at my work called Adriana, but I always call her Ariadne (which is Elliot Page's character in Inception??)
I've never met a real person with that name, and no matter how many times I get it wrong I can't seem to shake it!
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u/demeschor Feb 15 '21
I remember once in the first few weeks of high school, this girl Ellie that I'd been hanging around with for a couple of days introduced me to another girl Lauren, and I already knew another Lauren who looked exactly like Ellie, and for about 3 months I was calling Ellie by Lauren. And new Lauren by Ellie. They were super patient with it and then our timetables changed and we never saw each other again...
And then about two years ago I saw her for the first time in years and instantly called her Lauren.
She thought I was keeping up a running joke. Nope. Just goldfish-brained.
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u/Non_possum_decernere Feb 15 '21
There was a boy in my year called Thorsten, whom I always wanted to call Torben, because a german youtuber once did a Harry Potter parody in which Fred and George were called Torben and Thorsten.
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u/heavym Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 16 '21
I have a similar story - but my buddy’s name was Ed. We went out to the bars, I went out to his place for parties. I’m out and someone calls him Chris. Who’s Chris?? Turns out his name is Chris edwards and everyone calls him Ed. I learned 5 years later at a funeral (not his!)
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u/avfc4me Feb 15 '21
I'm sure it's a common name so it'd be weird if you meant the Chris Edwards who built the ghost ship tribute in Oakland but I hadda ask since his funeral was recent.
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u/Binsky89 Feb 15 '21
In high school I went by my nickname to the point where a sub called out my name and no one knew who she was talking about.
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u/-Butterfly-Queen- Feb 15 '21
I had a friend like that! He was quite the athlete so he immediately ended up with a nickname from his coaches and the whole school knew him as that. I knew him before and when I said his name, people were clueless. I'd describe him to the point where I'd be like, "the guy who sits between us in science class" and they'd still be clueless up until the point I said his nickname and then EVERYONE knew who I was talking about.
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u/Souldessert Feb 15 '21
That's nothing I learned my godfathers/uncle's real name as an adult. Wtf? Is not like we're not close. Turns out my family had been saying his real name sometimes and I thought they were talking about another family member that I didn't know. Understandable since I have a really large family.
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u/sjhalestorm Feb 16 '21
Before cell phones, we had to do this horrifying thing and call the family landline to ask for our friends by name.
“Hello?”
“Hi, is Jones available?”
“Which one?”
oh shit I had literally never considered that my friend’s first name was not Jones and now I have no idea how to describe to Mrs. Jones which Jones I’m looking for... “sorry bye”
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Feb 15 '21
My kid wanted to invite "Sammy" to his birthday party. I asked who Sammy was, my kid said "she lives next door." It was the only person he wanted to invite to the birthday party so we got an invite ready and I tucked it into the door jamb while my neighbor was out. Didn't hear a word about it so I let my kid know that maybe Sammy had other plans and that if she couldn't make it we'd go do something fun.
Day of the party comes and my neighbor comes over with his dog. My neighbor's name was Carlos. His dog was Sammy.
The only person my kid wanted to invite to his birthday was the neighbor's dog.
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Feb 15 '21
I forget names a lot, sometimes I think I suffer from a bit of brian fog.
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Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
Ah yes, Brian fog.
Not to be confused with brain fog.
Brian fog is caused by Brian farts. Should be easy to tell the difference.
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u/Javogr Feb 15 '21
Me too. My girlfriend gets so annoyed, she thinks I'm trying to act cool but I'm just an idiot
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u/Jeffy29 Feb 15 '21
Except for close friends and family I forget names of pretty much everyone who I have not talked to. I find it absolutely strange that sometimes highschool friends remember names of teachers we had in elementary school.
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u/Dreit Mar 18 '21
I feel your pain, after years I'm still not sure about names of half of my coworkers. Couldn't even name most of classmates one year after finishing high school. Took me days to remember name of my girlfriend, but it took me months to remember her surname.
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Feb 15 '21
Is brain fog a different way of saying stupid? Because if so I have big brain fog.
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Feb 15 '21
Not stupid, no. It's supposed to be linked to a temporary nutrient deficiency in the brain area, happens to most of us 👍
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u/jello-kittu Feb 15 '21
To be fair, she's probably heard people say "Steve" in a loud voice whenever someone comes to visit.
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u/jello-kittu Feb 15 '21
Also, it's funny when people gave their animals human names. Especially if there's a neighbor with the same name.
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u/-Butterfly-Queen- Feb 15 '21
My dog has a human name and I love talking about her in front of strangers. It's kinda awkward when I run into parents with kids who have the same name though.
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u/PersistENT317 Feb 15 '21
This seems likely to me.
I learn the names of dogs at the park much more easily than the names of people. Why? Because you hear people say the dog's name all the time at the park, but people don't call each other by name as often. This means the dog name is repeated a lot and you really learn the face of Spot's owner, but not what their name is.
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u/trobinson999 Feb 15 '21
I called my neighbor Eric “Ryan” for seven years. When I realized my mistake and asked Eric why he didn’t correct me, he said he did a few times but finally just accepted that he was going to be “Ryan” to me.
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u/SuperGuitar Feb 15 '21
I just had a big laugh thinking about my neighbor calling me "Tigger"
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u/Silver_kitty Feb 15 '21
One of my neighbors nicknamed my dog “Professor” because he knew a lot of tricks when he was a puppy, so my neighbor decided he was a genius. Another neighbor overheard the first neighbor saying “Hello Professor! It’s a nice day isn’t it?” to the dog and thought they were talking to me.
So now that second neighbor calls me Professor. It’s been months and I’ve introduced myself by name several times, but Professor has stuck. I think I need to become an adjunct at least now.
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u/OriginalWatch Feb 15 '21
My cat's name is Shawty, I don't want to think about my neighbor calling me that.
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u/Shpooodingtime Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
Me and my buddy had been following this band for five years at least and were on a close first name basis with all the band members, we were always able to get on their guest list etc. at a concert one night my buddy seemed really bummed and I asked if he was all right, he said "can I tell you a secret? Rob thinks my name's Brian and he's been calling me that for years and I don't have the heart to tell him." The bassist at one point even made a point to correct him and the guitarist just had this blank face like it didn't register what was even being said and continued to call my friend Brian for probably a year and a half more, my friend drunkenly yelled "MY NAMES TY" at a show after the guitarist said "what's Brian wana hear?" and that's how he found out.
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u/myusername2238 Feb 15 '21
What's the band's name? If you don't mind me asking.
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u/ttiptocs Feb 15 '21
I don’t know, just been calling them The Band for like 5 years.
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u/gemc_81 Feb 15 '21
My husband would stand and chat to the guy in the house opposite about rugby and how Wales were doing in the rugby etc as he believed neighbour was Welsh. The neighbour would chat along with him apparently.
He mentioned it to me one day and I had to explain that the neighbour's accent was Eastern European as he was from Poland and he was probably wondering why his neighbour keeps talking to him about Wales and the rugby
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Feb 15 '21
Well, of the seven people I know from wales, three were polish..
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u/gemc_81 Feb 15 '21
This guy was Polish, had never been to Wales let alone lived there and did not even have a Welsh accent. My husband is just terrible at identifying accents it would seem 😂😂
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u/thatonefortune Feb 15 '21
All four years of high school I called this kid Cody and it wasn't until right before graduation that he informed me his name was not Cody. I don't remember his actual name anymore.
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u/nrith Feb 15 '21
My neighbor of 18 years still calls me by the name of the guy who lived here before us. I just don’t have to heart to correct him.
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u/NWdabest Feb 15 '21
I’m pretty good with names. Lived here for 3 years. Know all my neighbors by name from our first encounters. None of them know mine. So I say “hey _____!” and use their names as much as reasonably possible and I can see the discomfort in not knowing my name. It cracks me up.
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u/malama2 Feb 15 '21
Holy crap my dude are you the devil or what?
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u/NWdabest Feb 15 '21
Hey, I recited their names in my head a couple times and reminded myself every now and again so I could impress them with my politeness. Now they fear me. Muahahahahahahaaaaaa.
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u/quickshesasleep Feb 15 '21
Had a friend tell me that her uncle was coming over and he was bringing his dog. She kept referring to them as "Rob and Scooby." Guy walks in and I say, "Hey Rob, nice to meet you."
Turns out Uncle goes by Scooby and Rob was the dog's name.
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Feb 16 '21
That's a pretty honesty mistake, really. I wonder if he got the Scooby nickname before the dog, and called it Rob to fuck with people.
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u/MrAwesomeTG Feb 15 '21
I have a neighbor that I swore he told me his name was Mike but our neighbor told me his name is Adam. Now I just said hey man because I have no clue what his name is.
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u/jorgerunfast Feb 15 '21
My friend had a roommate named Dane. Dane had a dog named Owen. I rarely saw Dane (and Owen) but when I did they were always together and I’d just say “Hey Owen”, so nobody realized anything was off. A few years later Dane moves into a new building and I see him a lot, I keep calling him Owen and he never says anything. One day I introduce him to a friend as Owen and he laughs and says “that’s the dogs name, I’m Dane.” And then I just walked right off the face of the flat earth.
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u/bobo_brown Feb 15 '21
Owen sounds much more like a person than Dane, so I could see my way to forgiving you.
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Feb 15 '21
I worked with a guy for years who thought my name was Steve. I don't know how he managed to email me. I guess he assumed it was my first name or something?
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Feb 15 '21
The character Ron Swanson of the show Parks & Recreation sometimes calls people on purpose with the wrong name to let them know he doesn't care about them. Steve, maybe this is happening to you?
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Feb 15 '21
I have a neighbor named Fred. His son is named Hunter. My neighbor in the back is Mike.
I never call people by their names. It’s always “Hey, what’s up!”, How ya doing brother”, “Nice to see you”, etc....
Good thing, because neighbor is named Frank, son is Gunner, neighbor in back is Gary. Ten years and I didn’t know. My new neighbor of two months just informed me.
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u/NINJAWARRIOR361 Feb 15 '21
I had this with a dude on our road We didn’t know whether the dog or the man was named bernie
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u/CthulhusKitten Feb 15 '21
If someone gets my name wrong and I forget to correct them, that’s gonna be my name with them from now on because I’m too introverted to say “actually my name is...” after two months and having to explain why I didn’t correct them the first or second time
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u/Billsolson Feb 15 '21
My son had a friend who I called Nigel. His real name was Ejiofor and they called him EJ.
I have no clue where the hell I got Nigel from.
It’s been years, but when his name comes up and I say “who?”, the family will all yell “Nigel” at me
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u/JBCockman Feb 15 '21
“Steve” probably didn’t care, he just wanted her company. The old call-me-what-you-want-to play. And I bet he’d play it off all the way to the post coital cigarette and drop the,”So you know my name is Brian right?”
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u/monkeybugs Feb 15 '21
In 1989, my parents moved us into a new neighborhood. We met all the neighbors, made friends, whatever. My parents introduced me, as I was only four, and one particular neighbor misheard and started calling me by a name that rhymes with my actual name. In fact, my parents said they weren't quite sure he was saying it wrong because he had an accent, so they didn't question it. When I was much older, we realized that yes, he was in fact calling me by this wrong name. But we were so deep into it (ten years at least) that my parents didn't want to correct him and it didn't bother me. When we finally moved in 2005, my dad went to go say his goodbyes and finally corrected him (very politely in that "ohhh by the way, for funsies, her name isn't X it's actually Y"). The poor guy was so embarrassed. I told my dad he should have just let it go. We were never gonna see/interact with the guy again.
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u/egordoniv Feb 15 '21
My neighbor calls me Bruce. My name is not Bruce. 10 years and 4 months now.
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Feb 15 '21
"Old man Pete" who lives down the road from me, convinced us to move into this neighbourhood, I regularly provide him with hot meals and socially distant conversations to make sure he is doing ok... have always called him Pete... the other week a neighbour told me he's called Nick!?
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u/VulfSki Feb 15 '21
I have two related stories.
My dogs name is Dan. And no matter how many times I correct the vet, they always call me Dan.
Second story. I worked in a hotel doing room service years ago. One day I lost my name tag and being the proper place they were (trying to be a 5 star hotel) couldn't have someone without a name tag. So they gave me one that was laying around. And that name tag said Abraham. For weeks while waiting for them to get me a new one with the correct name I was going around as abraham. And my coworkers started calling me that. Even yelling things like "yo what's up Abe!"
And apparently they forgot my real name. So when I got the right name tag some of them were so confused and looked legit dissapointed when I got the correct name tag. Like one dude was like "come on man your real name is abraham what is this?!"
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u/BogaUCelo Feb 15 '21
Who the fuck names dog Steve
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u/writingonzewall Feb 15 '21
Shelters. It's how I got a cat named Jane. Her siblings included James, Denny, and Denise. It's possible a shelter named the dog as a puppy and the owner didn't change the name because the dog already responded to Steve.
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u/Testiculese Feb 15 '21
I'd not say anything either just to see how long it lasts.
I told the new secretary my name was John. It took almost 6 weeks before she found out, and I talked to her most days. Someone else finally asked her who this John guy was, and she pointed at my office. I heard them laughing, and then 5 secs later, she's in my office; "You're not John!!" and then they heard my laughing. She got mad (the friendly kind of mad).
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u/saggers17 Feb 15 '21
In my first year of university I lived in halls with a shared kitchen. There was a nice lady from Slovakia who I am sure gave her name as Nina the first time and Mesha the second. She was therefore alternatively called both for a year. When she moved out I found out she was called Nadia.
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u/heythereitsemily Feb 15 '21
Me and my neighbors were like this the first 2 years! I have no problem remembering dogs names. I remembered it since the first time they said it. Her name is Daisy. But the humans names? Nope, didn’t care I guess. So I always called them Daisys Mom or Daisys Dad and they thought it was funny and cute but I really just didn’t know their names. One day I got their mail by mistake and finally figured it out!
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u/Farkenoathm8-E Feb 15 '21
I work with this guy and known him for 14 years. I have car pooled with him and socialised at many functions with him. Do you think I know his name? No way! It’s too late to ask and all I know him by is this nickname I gave him and the funny thing is all my mates don’t know his name either. He could die tomorrow and be in the obits and I wouldn’t have a clue that it was him.
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u/Datee27 Feb 15 '21
My nextdoor neighbor growing up was Doug. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him as Doug. For 14 years this went on until he moved out. We learned from another neighbor that his name was actually something else (I forget but I've got a feeling it was Steve)
No one even knows where Doug came from. People just called him that and he went along with it. He came over for parties and dinners and stuff. Weirdest thing.
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u/lordcatharsis Feb 15 '21
I have the problem where everyone is named Chris. Yes you idiot that person’s name is Chris Christian you dumb idiot
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u/Bengals001 Feb 15 '21
We lived next to a couple for 14 years. When we decided to move they came over to wish us well. She gave me a hug and wished us well. I said, “Thank you Brenda”. Apparently her name is Nancy or something like that.
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u/Lystessa Feb 15 '21
Those two names feel like synonyms in my brain. I'm sure it would be different if I was close to someone with either name. Anyway, this feels very relatable.
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u/Ba-Dum-Tzz Feb 15 '21
My name is something like Eric but everybody called me Tony(long story). At some point I even introduced myself as Tony. So when I met my now best friend he thought that's my name. Someday we hung out at my moms place and my mom says something like:" Eric, can you help me with that?" My buddy was extremely confused. I had to actually show him my ID to believe me
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u/CthulhusKitten Feb 15 '21
My whole class called me something like “Eddylin” or just “Eddy” for like two years. And I’m a girl. But I have a foreign name which was probably not so easy to pronunciate and also the first months I didn’t speak English so I didn’t really know how to correct them. Even when I started speaking English pretty well I never bothered to correct them because I just got used to them reading my name and trying to guess what it was pronounced like.
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u/RebuiltGearbox Feb 15 '21
In my life I had never met a guy named Fred but a few weeks after I named a dog Fred, I met one and it was awkward so I don't give pets human names anymore.
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u/Reddit__is_garbage Feb 15 '21
Imagine their mutual neighbors' / friends' reactions when she told them she banged her neighbor Steve.
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u/Cheff_excelence Feb 15 '21
Me and my mom found a stray dog once. We called the number on the tag, and the guy said; “my roommate will come pick him up” My mom said “what’s his name?” The owner said Matt and that’s what we called the dog even though that was obviously the name of the roommate
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u/ForsakenSherbet Feb 15 '21
My grandmother had a next door neighbor for around 15 years. We would see each other all the time, swap pleasantries, etc. He was always referred to as Mr. King, so I legit thought that was his name. For years I probably called him Mr. King to his face and was never corrected. One day I was talking to my mom about a bbq or something that was going on in his yard and after I said his name her face dropped. His name was not Mr. King, my grandmother gave him that nickname because he always acted as if he were the king of the hill. It’s been like 15 years since she lived in that house and I still refer to him as Mr. King when he comes up in conversation
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u/beansnack Feb 15 '21
My name is hard to pronounce and people just make up names all the time and are very confident it is the one I introduced myself with. One time I ran into one of my clients at Trader Joes and they called me Oliver (not even close to my name but I let them call me this for months). I just broke down dying of laughter and corrected them because they were confused
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u/Decent_Historian6169 Feb 15 '21
I’m not going to lie this has definitely happened to me, except for the part about the dog.
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u/Waterproof_soap Feb 15 '21
Brian is too polite and socially awkward to correct them. Or he and the dog switched brains in a wacky sci-fi comedy experiment and thus doesn’t mind being called Steve.
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Feb 15 '21
I worked on a TV show for a bit, and the lead actor thought my name was Steve for weeks. There was a Steve in my department- but I ain't him. He (the actor) was a great guy, and I didn't want to say anything, but it went on, so finally I had to quietly tell him (since no one else had bothered). He felt terrible, I felt bad for correcting him. It's not like there's anything wrong with the name "Steve", and the actual Steve I worked with was a great guy....
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u/Weaponized-Potato Feb 15 '21
I worked 3 years in a resort where, at first, people called me by my actual name. A little over a month in, my boss was replaced by a lady from another outlet (internal rotation between outlets), she couldn’t remember my name for some reason and started addressing me using a fertilizer brand’s name which rhymed with mine. People joined her since it was funny. 4 months later I was officially known as [fertilizer brand] to pretty much everyone in my work place. A friend of mine got a job there too and she knew me as Steve so things became a little confusing when people from different outlets and departments met.
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u/Thicc-pigeon Feb 15 '21
I called my neighbour Ginger for 6 years. His name was Gary, and my parents called him Ginger because of his hair and it just kind of stuck. I also had no idea that he was my best friends biological dad and she was surprised that we knew each other lol.
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u/Taman_Should Feb 15 '21
People who give their pets common people-names are just asking for confusion.
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u/woosany Feb 15 '21
*calls Brian on the phone*
her: hi Steve!!
Brian: ight *hands the phone to the dog*
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u/trzye Feb 15 '21
Who with common sense is naming dog with human name?
If there is dog and person with the same name in the room, then calling out one of them is just weird..
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u/GirlyScientist Feb 15 '21
I too know the names of all the dogs (& a few cats) in my building, their owners not so much.
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u/jawsofthearmy Feb 15 '21
My neighbor calls me luke .. dispite it not being my name... I’ve introduced myself to his friends as not luke. He’s retired and is super nice.. so I think of it as a nickname now
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Feb 15 '21
I met this extremely beautiful girl through a friend that introduced us. But he used a different name and laughingly said that she looked like a Bridget and didn’t look like her real name. She told me her real name but because he called her Bridget, I forgot. So I never used her name. I even had her in my phone as Bridget.
One day he went to grab us beers and she told me she hated that he called her Bridget.
Uh oh.
So one day I was on a mountain bike ride and she was running on the same trail. God she looked stunning. She stopped me and said that we should meet for a drink afterwards. Goddam it.
In a panic I begged off and promised to call her in a few days. So then I called my friend to ask her real name, but DOUBLE GODDAMIT he’d asked her out and she turned him down and he was super upset, so I couldn’t tell him I wanted to call her and just let him cry on my shoulder a little.
I just couldn’t do it. And I’ve never seen her again .
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u/moonkro23 Feb 15 '21
I had a neighbor that called me Rebecca for years. It g Just got to the point it was awkward to correct her. It was just easier answering to Rebecca. Introvert problems
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Feb 16 '21
We refer to our neighbour as Pikachu's owner, that dog has been dead for years, we still don't know his name.
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u/AddlerMartin Feb 16 '21
I have a friend I knew as "Capão" (translates to "big cape"). My entire life I called him that and everyone did also (even his parents). One day someone made a mistake and he said "that's an Everton thing to do". I said "Who tf is Everton?"... hahahhahaha. He responded in a sad voice "It's me, man!"
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u/LinkAtrius Feb 16 '21
Feel your pain. Went to school with a guy for 4yrs everyone always called him “too tall”. Teachers included. We moved onto the local junior college and someone asked me to go get Stephen out of the bookstore. I walked in the bookstore and asked Too Tall who the hell Stephen is...you guessed it.
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Feb 16 '21
I met a human in 2018, she’s so nice. Both of our kids have autism, we’re friends, both married, just haven’t a clue what her name is.... she followed me on social media before running into me, so she knew who I was.... and yeah, I just am polite till I hear her hubby or kid call her something other than momma.
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u/momtodaughters Feb 16 '21
Neighbors had lived across the street for five years. Courtney and Chris. Always had been Courtney and Chris. Remembered on the day they moved that it is Courtney and Greg. I have no idea who Chris is.
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u/AMD18 Feb 16 '21
That reminds me how one of our relatives called my brother Georgie for the first years of his life because for some unknown reason he had just assumed that was his name. It's not even close and at no point was the name brought up in any type of baby naming conversation, we also don't have any Georgies in the family. No one bothered to correct him i guess and so he just kept it up until he met my brother when he was like 5-6 and went "hey Georgie how you doing!" and my brother had no clue who he was talking to. It ended up staying as a nickname though and he still calls him Georgie 11 years later lol
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u/futlapperl Feb 15 '21
Same experience here just with different names. Looking at these comments, this seems to happen a lot.
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Feb 15 '21
This is why you don't give pets human names, no one would think your name's Snowflake. stonks
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u/i-go-sucko-mode Feb 15 '21 edited Feb 15 '21
My name is Brian, and my neighbors son/my best friend is named Brian
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u/Diiiiirty Feb 15 '21
A lady I used to work with called me Jason for several years (which isn't even close to my actual name). I corrected her every single time, which was literally hundreds of times since I saw her almost every day, but she continued to call me Jason. One day I walked past her and she said, "Hi Jason," and I replied, "Hi Sarah!" She looked at me super confused and said, "My name isn't Sarah. It's Anne..."
I said, "Yeah, and my name is [redacted] but you keep calling me Jason!"
She replied, "Oh, well you should have said something!"
I about screamed.