That's not my name

[customersruinmylife]

We have a regular customer who comes in and sits at the bar for hours on end. All he does is complain about everything that is wrong in the world, and moan about various things that have annoyed him during the day. Whenever he enters, people flee the bar and go off to do something else. Last person to flee is stuck with him, and unfortunately it was my turn.

After about twenty minutes of him complaining about everything, he sighs.

SC: I don't know Richard. What's the world coming to?
Me: ....
SC: I'm sorry, may I call you Richard?
Me: Well, it's not my name.
SC: What is your name?
Me: Customersruinmylife.
SC: ...
Me: ...
SC: I prefer Richard.

So now, he calls me Richard EVERY TIME he comes into the bar. I keep correcting him, but the response I get is "Sorry Richard, I'll remember next time."

[iradney]

Just don't respond next time. It's not your name, therefore you will NOT respond.

[crazylegs]

The cleaner at The Chemists used to call me Rob (or some other name, I can't remember now) for months, I was too embarassed to correct her and it was only when I went on holiday for a bit then came back that she started to call me by my right name. I can only image she asked someone where I was and they went 'who?' and then the truth came out...

[Becks]

There's this old man at work who's called me Rachel, Raquel, Renee...

He's given up and doesn't call me anything at all now.

[Imogene]

Re: Thread title:
"Is your name 'Joey'?"
...
"Cause I'm gonna call ya 'Slowey Joey!"

[GingerBiscuit]

"They call me hot
They call me sex-y
They call me her
They call me jane

That's not my name
that's not my name
that's not my name
that's not my name"

Sorry. I'll go away now.

(If you don't know what I'm talking about search youtube for the Ting Tings.)

[flybye023]

My dad had three Navajo guys as employees, all brothers. They had kind of an accent so he got a little mixed up on the one guy's name. He thought it was "Fletcher". So payday comes around and he has all three of them in his office and he comes to a timecard filled out by Frederick.

So he asks, "okay, who's Frederick?" They don't answer, just kind of shuffle their feet and look at each other out of the corner of their eyes. He repeats the question and "Fletcher" raises his hand. My dad was quite embarrassed and lamely says, "oh, I thought you were Fletcher..." One of the other brothers shrugged and replied, "Well, that's what you call him."

[Evil Queen]

I used to know an [really really] old man like that. Lived a pretty sad life, actually. Lost his wife in a war some where, his kid was mentally disturbed and lived in a loony bend, his friends and family all dead from something tragic (I have no idea what it was but I do strongly suspect he's a Holocaust survivor). He'd call me all sorts of names even though my name was clearly posted on my name tag. Nothing ever resembling my name, but I let him because everytime I reminded him he'd apologize so much I wanted to cry.

Sad old men make me teary.

[Pagan]

My dad had three Navajo guys as employees, all brothers. They had kind of an accent so he got a little mixed up on the one guy's name. He thought it was "Fletcher". So payday comes around and he has all three of them in his office and he comes to a timecard filled out by Frederick.

Huh. I've heard Navajo accents (plus a lot of other Native Amerian accents) all my life and never heard one where "Frederick" would get mistaken for "Fletcher"?

[Listerfiend]

I have a professor who's getting up there in years (68), and she's always called me "Kim." It's to the point that whenever she says "Kim" I know she's talking about me; it often leaves my classmates dumbfounded, as there's never a Kim around. For the record--my name is Allison. Which doesn't exactly rhyme with "Kim."

[unclejampuff]

My first name is Lauren. It is not Laurie, Laura, Loren, Lorien, Laurel, Layla, Lainey, Lana, Lareina, Lara, Lorrine, or any other variant. It's L-A-U-R-E-N, as in Lauren Bacall, as in Ralph Lauren, as in my name tag, as in what my co-workers are calling me, as in the girl about to smack you when you repeatedly get it wrong.
I'm usually pretty forgiving on little things, but I have to deal with it so often...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

"Burt Reynolds"

"Ah, that's not my name."

"Okay....Turd Ferguson!"

"Yeah, whaddaya want?"

"You buzzed in!"

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did!"

"Well, that's your opinion!"

"I hate my job!"

/end

[ladyklack]

My first name is Lauren. It is not Laurie, Laura, Loren, Lorien, Laurel, Layla, Lainey, Lana, Lareina, Lara, Lorrine, or any other variant. It's L-A-U-R-E-N, as in Lauren Bacall, as in Ralph Lauren, as in my name tag, as in what my co-workers are calling me, as in the girl about to smack you when you repeatedly get it wrong.

I get called Lauren all the time. Hint: my name is not Lauren, but it is one of the variations that you mentioned above.

[Gwen_Goth]

My name is Gwen (if you hadn't guessed)

I'm in wales. Gwen is a pretty common name here.

and yet, on 3 separate occasions, by 3 people (who all do not know each other) i have been called Beth.

Beth. wtf?

how on earth, even with a welsh accent, do you confuse Gwen with Beth???

[flybye023]

Huh. I've heard Navajo accents (plus a lot of other Native Amerian accents) all my life and never heard one where "Frederick" would get mistaken for "Fletcher"?

It actually sounded like "Fetchrick" but for some reason "Fletcher" was the name my Dad's brain settled on.