fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
I HATE my middle name. I am thoroughly embarrassed by it. Nobody knows it, not even my brother. And I ain't telling. Do you ever wish you had a different name?
My first name is a common name with a somewhat uncommon spelling. I always have to say, yes, but with a _____.
My middle name looks like it has a letter left out of it. In fact, when I was 17 and had to get a copy of my birth certificate for my first passport, the spelling of my middle name had been changed. The lady at the bureau pulled out the original certificate and showed me where someone had crossed it out, "corrected" the spelling and dated it. No name or initials were on the change, though. I actually had to swear an affidavit before a judge that the name had been changed incorrectly in order to get it back to the original spelling. My high school diploma also had my middle name spelled wrong; apparently someone there also thought I had it spelled wrong on my paperwork. See the pattern?
For some reason, as a child I wanted to be named "Esmeralda". Did I mention I was a strange child?
My mother got my complete name from a death notice in the newspaper. She also insists it's pronounced differently than how I pronounce it. Did I mention I have a strange mother?
My first name is a common name with a somewhat uncommon spelling. I always have to say, yes, but with a _____.
My middle name looks like it has a letter left out of it. In fact, when I was 17 and had to get a copy of my birth certificate for my first passport, the spelling of my middle name had been changed. The lady at the bureau pulled out the original certificate and showed me where someone had crossed it out, "corrected" the spelling and dated it. No name or initials were on the change, though. I actually had to swear an affidavit before a judge that the name had been changed incorrectly in order to get it back to the original spelling. My high school diploma also had my middle name spelled wrong; apparently someone there also thought I had it spelled wrong on my paperwork. See the pattern?
For some reason, as a child I wanted to be named "Esmeralda". Did I mention I was a strange child?
My mother got my complete name from a death notice in the newspaper. She also insists it's pronounced differently than how I pronounce it. Did I mention I have a strange mother?
Yes. My first name is very unusual, so much so that I always have to explain its origin to everyone I meet. (Not all that interesting; my mother looked it up in a name dictionary.) And I have no middle name to switch to, so I am really stuck with it. By now, I'm pretty used to it, though. (It's not Sunny, needless to say.)
When my three children were born, they all got very ordinary, recognizable names.
Hmmm. May I call you Floppy?I pretty much like my name as it is........Igor Kareem Elfenflopper = IKE
I am glad that my parents didn't name me Sue.
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Hmmm. May I call you Floppy?
How about Flopsy- if he has siblings named Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.layful: lol
Awwwww. I am sorry.Please quit picking on me.......
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