In my quest to learn How to Be a Bitch
Feb. 27th, 2007 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhor. . . Defending My Name Against Nincompoops.
We refinanced our house.
We provided the following forms of ID verification: My PhD diploma, my driver's license, my social security card, my credit card. Also in their possession: my credit reports and pay stubs.
They misspelled my name: Browyn
We corrected them using the proper form within the loan docs - the form on which the HALF DOZEN misspellings of my name were recounted: BroNwyn
We sent the notary on his happy way with the loan docs.
The bank crapped their collective pants and requested that I correct EVERY INSTANCE of the misspelling throughout the loan documents.
For the record, there were approximately 130 instances, each of which had to be crossed out, respelled and initialled. The notary kindly helped me find additional instances. Nice guy. HE can spell my name.
One Hundred and Thirty Instances.
First payment coupons arrive, addressed to Jeffrey and Browyn.
*ARGH*
I just paid the bills, and on the back of the coupon I wrote,
Name: CORRECT SPELLING: B R O N W Y N . . .
Reason for change: ()Address change ()Name change ()marriage ()divorce ()death (X) You can't spell my name even after I corrected it 150 times on the application! This is insulting and smacks of incompetence.
Anybody want to place bets that my name will still be misspelled on the next payment coupon?
Yeah, who's dumb enough to bet against THOSE odds?
Seriously, how hard is it? It's spelled phonetically, for chrissakes!
We refinanced our house.
We provided the following forms of ID verification: My PhD diploma, my driver's license, my social security card, my credit card. Also in their possession: my credit reports and pay stubs.
They misspelled my name: Browyn
We corrected them using the proper form within the loan docs - the form on which the HALF DOZEN misspellings of my name were recounted: BroNwyn
We sent the notary on his happy way with the loan docs.
The bank crapped their collective pants and requested that I correct EVERY INSTANCE of the misspelling throughout the loan documents.
For the record, there were approximately 130 instances, each of which had to be crossed out, respelled and initialled. The notary kindly helped me find additional instances. Nice guy. HE can spell my name.
One Hundred and Thirty Instances.
First payment coupons arrive, addressed to Jeffrey and Browyn.
*ARGH*
I just paid the bills, and on the back of the coupon I wrote,
Name: CORRECT SPELLING: B R O N W Y N . . .
Reason for change: ()Address change ()Name change ()marriage ()divorce ()death (X) You can't spell my name even after I corrected it 150 times on the application! This is insulting and smacks of incompetence.
Anybody want to place bets that my name will still be misspelled on the next payment coupon?
Yeah, who's dumb enough to bet against THOSE odds?
Seriously, how hard is it? It's spelled phonetically, for chrissakes!
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Date: February 27th, 2007 01:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:00 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, I was at the Pink Door last week talking with a woman who wanted to know where I'd post the shots I took at the show. I handed her a business card with my name and the two web addresses and her first question was:
"Are you sure this is spelled right?"
The "this" in question being my last name.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:26 pm (UTC)*boggle*
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:53 pm (UTC)Admittedly, there are a few folks out here with a different spelling of my last name, but come on!
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: February 27th, 2007 03:59 pm (UTC)Then again, after "boy Chris", damn near everything outside of curses and insults is acceptable.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 04:04 pm (UTC)o jeez
I'll have to ask my mom if she was ever differentiated by "girl chris" :)
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Date: February 27th, 2007 04:17 pm (UTC)I dated Kris for 3 years and her friends thought that "boy Chris" was the very soul of wit and nobody could quite get why I didn't care for it much after a while.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, that would cheese me off, too.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:23 pm (UTC)They must have gone to the same spelling class as Newsweek -- who continues to add extra vowels to my last name, despite having received corrections in handwriting, in type, and eventually even from my mother. (She gave me a gift renewal for Christmas. My name is still wrong.)
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:42 pm (UTC)I hear Brow-win, Bro-win, Bron-in, Brown-in, Bron-lin . . . Makes my skin crawl.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:49 pm (UTC)the thing i had most is ill say McLeod M-C-L-E-O-D and they still spell it wrong. i have to spell it 3 times or more. silly people.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:54 pm (UTC)I still catch myself doing it on occasion :)
I'll grant that McLeod isn't spelled the way it sounds, but I've never seen it spelled any other way, either.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 04:00 pm (UTC)i suppose not. i mean if you try to say it with a stressed Scottish acent, you can get it a bit haha the other other way its spelt is mAc but thats it.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 04:05 pm (UTC)I know a Macdonald. I'm sure she puts up with a lot of MacDonalds and McDonalds.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:56 pm (UTC)My home insurance lists my name as follows:
First: L.
Last: Edward
THAT'S IT!!!
When the tree branch fell, they sent us a check for the damages above our deductable... IN THAT NAME. I couldn't even cash it. Now mind you, when we placed the claim, I TOLD THEM the name was wrong on the account and they corrected it.
Turned out they needed me to have it changed with my mortgage company or something like that.
I sent the check back to them and am STILL waiting for a new one... Let alone one with the proper name.
People are effing idiots.
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Date: February 27th, 2007 03:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: February 28th, 2007 01:56 am (UTC)Wrong assholes. Michelle is as close to my name as Joshua is to Helen.
It annoys me and smacks of laziness. If anyone calls my house and asks for Michelle I tell them there is no Michelle here and hang up on them. Or, tell them had they bothered to read my name correctly, I might buy wtf ever it is they are selling, now I won't :)
As you can see, this matter also annoys me..............
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Date: February 28th, 2007 12:16 pm (UTC)"Close enough," eh? I'd call them Bill. Or if their name is Bill, I'd call them something else entirely and say, "close enough."
Jackholes.
I do the same thing to telemarketers.
"Hello, Mrs. Herd- Harli- um Mrs. Hair-. . .um. . . Brow. . . is Mrs. Jeff there?"
Wtf?!?
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Date: February 28th, 2007 02:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: February 28th, 2007 12:17 pm (UTC)ummm
Date: March 4th, 2007 11:05 am (UTC)Re: ummm
Date: March 5th, 2007 01:31 pm (UTC)