Gary Varga (10/28/2013)
LSAdvantage (10/28/2013)
...But I kid you not, there was one occasion when I spelled my last name to someone, and they insisted I spelled my own last name wrong.I have found this to be an unbelievably common experience. Not just by me. Often with people with delusions of adequacy (I like people of all sorts and try not to be too judgemental but reserve my true ridicule for those who try to impose their attitude of superiority over everyone when it is totally baseless).
Both my mother and aunt experienced this as well. In my mother's case, the delivery nurse argued with my Grandmother about the name she and chosen and forced her to use a different variation.
In my aunt's case, a teacher at school insisted there should be an "e" at the end of her name. My Grandmother actually went into the school and reprimanded the teacher.