I want to buy the LW a beverage of their choice, because I feel like I've been dealing with minor variations on this my whole life.
Like, my dad and brother have the same first name, but my dad has always gone by a popular variant of the name, so trying to figure out whom people wanted when they called on the phone was irritating. I have gone by the short version of my name my whole life, with a snarly reaction to people I don't know well who use the -y form, which results in my correcting people when my best friend introduces me with the -y form.
The most confusing is my in-laws. FIL has gone by his middle name forever, so far as I know; my husband started going by his middle name in high school, almost 30 years ago. Yet the in-laws consistently call him by his first name, which considering we named our kid the same, is a "Who's on first?" situation all around.
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Like, my dad and brother have the same first name, but my dad has always gone by a popular variant of the name, so trying to figure out whom people wanted when they called on the phone was irritating. I have gone by the short version of my name my whole life, with a snarly reaction to people I don't know well who use the -y form, which results in my correcting people when my best friend introduces me with the -y form.
The most confusing is my in-laws. FIL has gone by his middle name forever, so far as I know; my husband started going by his middle name in high school, almost 30 years ago. Yet the in-laws consistently call him by his first name, which considering we named our kid the same, is a "Who's on first?" situation all around.
NAMES! *argh*