The Return of Liverson

[kitanzi]

I've don't want to even try totalling up how many years I've been doing customer service over the telephone for various companies. One of the saving notes of entertainment in the whole thing, though, has been creative manglings of my admittedly unusual name (Larissa). I've always figured I would answer to any polite name callers gave me, without wasting time correcting them, but some of them do get ridiculous. At one point I was keeping a running list, which reached something over 30 before I threw it out. Some of these were obvious and understandable, like Clarissa or Melissa, or even Melinda, but I never did figure out (or bother asking) where a few folks came up with Miss Rita, Rose, or other totally unrelated names. The ones that really boggle me, though, are the ones that aren't even names. Is anyone really named Liverson? Or another one, new to me, that recently came up - Eureka? Where do people GET this stuff? My last caller, another who picked Liverson, wasn't even noticeably deaf, though he certainly had no idea of the basic concept of "If I shut up and listen instead of talking over someone, I might even get the information I am wasting everyone's time calling about." I figure I may as well laugh, since I sure can't do a damn thing to change it. *shrug* But seriously.... Liverson??

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[duality.livejournal.com]

i have to go by Bailey on the phone, and about a 1/5 of the ppl who talk to me, call me Mary. i dunno -why-.

i've had some fun manglings of my first name to. using my last helped disassociate me from the other person with similar first name who constantly screwed up at work. of those that do understand that i'm saying Bailey, many do comment on how unusual the name is, or how much they like it, or how some friend/relative of theirs just named a little girl that.

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and a lot of those who DO get it, start going on about "Oh, that's a pretty name, isn't it unusual! Where did you get that?" Sadly, it's not quite acceptable to say "Look, just tell me what you called about, let me fix it, and go away."
But I'd really, really like to.