OH MARGARET!!!
okay, so i'm used to it by now-- i am constantly being asked if my real name is margaret. but as much as i am used to it... i'm still never surprised that someone actually got the name PEGGY from MARGARET!
yesterday i was on the phone with a company that i had ordered something from; there were a few kinks in the order that needed to be sorted out. i was put on hold from the woman taking the order and transferred to someone in their technical dept.
"okay margaret, it looks as though we're all set and the problem has been worked out."
pause... is he talking to me? does he have the wrong customer on the phone?
"umm... i'm sorry... this is peggy... were you referring to me?"
dude pauses... a little confused.
"umm... are you the customer that ordered xzxzxz?"
"yes, oh... sorry... my name is peggy... not margaret."
"oh" {audible relief} "oh, sorry about that... the woman in ordering called you margaret."
"yes, i understand. it happens all the time."
and it does... but really... how in the world? it's one of those things i will never find a sufficient answer to. it's like the name dick from richard... wha???
anyway, here's to all the JUST PLAIN PEGGY's out there (and believe me, there aren't many... in fact it's like me and a ton of ladies over the age of 60).!!!
13 years ago
6 comments:
Oh wow. Isn't that so super strange how some names just follow you around? I get "Lindsay" and only Lindsay. (Or maybe Lindsey, the phonetics are hard to hear) What a weird concept.
Margaret though. Who knew?
My great-grandma, Margaret, has a lot of kin (we're from the South) named after her. There's a Margaret Ann and a Marguerite. Then there's my Aunt Peggy. When my grandma informed me that she had named my aunt after her mother I was floored. Really? Peggy from Margaret? Really?
Oh and my Aunt Peggy is over 60. Sorry.
if you were to ask my mom, youd be called marie...
anyway, i think the wierdest one is when someone is the nickname "bubba" for "christopher".
what would the nickname for Julie be?
I have an Aunt Peggy. She is super freaking hot and she own this modern dance studio.
It's all good, dude.
A guy at a pizza place once thought I said my name was Richard...well, I told him while looking at him with much disbelieving sass that he could call me dick for short. True story.
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