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I have a lot of fun with them. When they ask me "How are you?" I talk for a while about petty things that have gotten on my nerves for the last few months. I don't give them a chance to talk. They always hang up on me, and then I feel so hurt.
I got a call from India (I think) this morning, claiming that I had some sort of computer issue. So I told the nice Indian-accented lady ("Stella" - wanna bet that's not her real name??) I was so glad she'd called, since I'd been really worried about the little green men who kept crawling out of my computer screen asking me to make pancakes for them.
Then I told "Stella" I was getting really scared, since it was obvious that she was one of the LGM!!
The name of a travel agency which I pass by during my daily commute to and from work:
"CRUISE'S AND MORE"
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People often add an extra consonant to my surname. Sometimes I tell them no, other times I say nothing. For some reason pronunciation confuses some others. The first 3 letters are bar. When a telemarketer says it, they often pronounce it ber, which calls for me to... "If you were going out somewhere to have a drink would you say you're going to a ber?" Whereupon they sometimes hang up.
I understand your frustration, Rubi. My last name is three letters in length and it's a common word. Yet many people add an "s" or "es" on the end of it, even when I clearly pronounce it for them and even when they've previously seen it in writing.
The only surname I can think of that's simpler than mine is Ho, as in Don Ho. I wonder if people misspell his last name, "Hoes."
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I understand your frustration, Rubi. My last name is three letters in length and it's a common word. Yet many people add an "s" or "es" on the end of it, even when I clearly pronounce it for them and even when they've previously seen it in writing.
The "extra S" phenomenon has always puzzled me.
For instance, when Julia Child was alive, most folks insisted on referring to her as Julia Childs.
The J.D. Power survey is almost always referred to as "J.D. Powers".
There are surely other examples of this puzzling tendency, but those are the only ones that come to mind at this time of the morning.
Misspelling is not uncommon and lack of attention may be part of the problem.
This - "chiwawa are also service dogs"- directly followed a post in which it was spelled correctly.
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