Do you have any awkward, embarrassing moments that at time to time come to mind and make you cringe or laugh. Almost a year ago I wrote about how I'm not a fan of wrong numbers and I thought I am probably due to share another story. You know those people who seem to move around from blog to blog every so many years. Yeah, that's me. So after this story happened, I went home and blogged about it. I'll post it just as I wrote it that day, then give a recap of what happened after.
People never seem to get my name right the first time they hear it. I get clorissa, krista, kristy, chrissy, marissa. Which isn't really a huge deal. I usually try to correct them once but just go with it after that.
To give a little background... this story happened almost 2 years ago when I was working at a student centre at a college. On that day, I was working in the sandwich chain area of the building.
The other night at work I met the new guy, who just so happens to know a good friend of mine from Ontario. I can't believe how small the world is.
I said my name when I introduced myself and made a mental note to try hard to remember his name (as I am HORRIBLE at remembering names 5 seconds after I hear them). Later on that shift his wife came in so he introduced me to her; said her name was Jennifer. I thought ok that's an easy enough name to remember.
But sometime after that he called me over to ask me a question by saying "Hey Jennifer can you come here?" I thought it was weird that he thought I had the same name as his wife. But after he called me it a few more times I realize when I met her, he wasn't saying her name was Jennifer, he was introducing me as Jennifer!
By now I've answered to Jennifer several times already, so he has been confirmed that, that's my name. He's a really nice guy and I didn't want to correct him and make him feel awkward on his first day of work, so I sort of just kept answering to Jennifer.
I tried to correct him a few times. But I just couldn't do it! This probably makes me a huge jerk, but anyways. He said he's going to message our mutual friend and tell her he met me. So I quickly sent an email tonight warning her that if he says he met Jennifer... it's actually me!
Jon was scheduled to work with him last night, he said he was going to walk up to this guy and introduce himself as Jennifer's husband. A girl at work said she is going to change my name on the schedule and have everyone call me Jennifer from now on. So guess I better go get my name legally changed now to aid in this embarrassing situation.
Lessons Learned: 1. Correct someone as soon as I realize they have my name wrong
2. Talk about myself in third person.
By the next time I worked with this guy he had my name right. I never figured out how he found out it wasn't Jennifer. I actually got to know his wife and became friends! But I'm glad they found out my actual name! You'd think I'd have learned my lesson about not correcting people. But I still just go with whatever interpretation of my name they come up with. Like I'm pretty sure our new landlords think my name is Krista. Not his fault. I repeated my name the first time he got it wrong but he repeated it back the same way as before so I just went with it.
Do you have a knack like me, of being awkward and embarrassing? Do people ever get your name wrong? Do you correct them or just go with it?
hahaha! I remember this story! I don't think I remember that he actually got your name right eventually. Good thing. I wonder if I told him when he emailed me? I think we talked about me doing that but I don't know if I actually did or not. haha...People get my name wrong often. I always thought Lindsay was an easy name...but people who aren't originally from Canada and elderly people have a hard time with my name. I usually get Linda or Lindy. I feel bad about correcting them too so I go with it as well hahaha. It is awkward correcting! For some reason I feel like snob. lol
ReplyDeleteyeah I don't remember how he eventually figured it out. I guess I could have asked Mel if she knew how. But it wasn't a big deal. Hmm... I could see people maybe getting your name confused with Lindy. but still Lindsay isn't that hard to remember or get! I know! I feel so snobby! "Actually my name is Ca-RISSA!!"
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