That name meme ...

[bubosquared]

If you call me ...

• Sofie (pronounced correctly), you're a coworker, RL friend, or family member;
• Sofie (prounounced the English way), you're going to have to be trained;
• Sof or any other abbreviation of my first name, we need to have a chat, because I hate when people abbreviate my first name;
• Sofieeeeeee, you're my brother, and the answer is no (and by "no" I mean "oh, fine," because I spoil that kid rotten);
• Melle, you know me online, or at least we met online;
• Mellie, you're a close online friend;
• Melleh!, you're Molly ("Molleh!") and possibly drunk;
• Kleine Puit (Little Frog), you're my grandmother;
• Mrs Werkers, you're looking for my late grandmother, or one of my aunts;
• Ms Werkers, you'll get away with it mostly because I'm forcing myself to accept I'm getting too old to be a "girl" anymore;
• Miss Werkers, you'll probably make my day.

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Don't mock my nicknames, damn you! :p And yeah, it irritates me when people insert my name into every other sentence. It's condescending, dammit! Especially when they call me by my first name without permission, which I tend to perceive as just rude. Grmpf.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*g* I'll mock your nicknames as much as I want to, young lady. ;-) You can call me rattekop in my face in return.

I seriously want to kill whomever invented the rule to make people comfortable by inserting their first name in every sentence. It only aggravates and I seriously don't think many people are calmed by it.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Seriously, dude, I know no one who feels comforted by that, and it's one of the more frequent peeves on customers_suck. Whoever thought that up was an idiot.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

I'd like to smack the guy in the balls. *g* They taught me the same thing in library school too, but I sure as hell will never speak to a customer in the library with their first name.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, I don't mind so much at the library, but then, I used to practically live there. Once it's people I've a "history" with, I appreciate it when they remember my name, and all, but the overkill is. UGH!

[sileas.livejournal.com]

but the overkill is. UGH!

*nods vigorously*

Do you go to the library often now? I usually go there to order books by IBL (and most of them come from Antwerp *g*)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Not really. I've sort of started to appreciate the value of having my own copy of books. I tend to buy paperbacks and sell the ones I don't want to keep to de Slegte. They tend to have a much better selection of (English) books at Waterstone's than in the library. Newer books, nonfic, that sort of thing.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*nods* I usually buy off Proxis because Brussels is far away, but I read a lot of books - depending on the books I'd say two to five books a week - and that amounts to a lot of money each month. So I read books through IBL and if I really like them, I'll buy a copy for myself. I've been to the Slegte a few times, but the one in Bruges doesn't have that much second-hand English books. I've been to the one in Ghent and from what I saw, there were no books from my favorite authors and very little fantasy/sci-fi.