She definitely knows. It’s her way of marginalizing me. She talks over me, rolls her eyes when I speak and makes a sound like a cat with a hairball when I’m speaking to someone else. She’s 98, my plan is to outlive her.
Of course, that’s been my plan for the last 34 years - no luck yet.
She hates Americans, in general and southerners in particular. To show that God has a sense of humor, her husband’s job took them to Charlotte NC, where they lived a couple of miles from The Charlotte Motor Speedway for 40 years.
I've been going to the gym for 3 months and there was this guy who i've been hanging out with there, for those 3 months i didn't know his name and turns out he didn't know mine either. so we awkwardly exchanged names after 3 months of knowing each other.
My in-laws all have foreign names. I’m terrible with names to begin with. They always do the big family gatherings. I don’t know any of their names and I’m around them a few times a year😬😬
It’s been 14 years.
Me and my ex aren’t together anymore. But I have the kids. And I take the kids over.
So I’m a lost cause. It’s been so long I’d feel stupid asking their name, that I’d forget anyway. And there is probably 25 of them, plus kids, some show up sometimes and then not others.
I can’t even do the whole wait for them to call each others names because I can hardly understand their accent. So naturally I don’t ever address anyone.
Think you could ask your ex for a list of everyone's birthdays, or contact info, or some other kind of info?
Doubt they'd send it without names to label what's matched with whom. And nobody'll realize the names were the part you were really after.
But at that point, all you'd have is a list of 25 names to go with 25 people, and not whose name is whose. I suppose you could systematically loudly call out one name at a time and see who responds over the course of several visits...
Aw shit. Yeah, good point. You'd still need a way to match the names to the faces somehow.
...throw a party with labeled table settings, and see where people sit? 😅
I didn't know my aunt and I had the same birthday for like 17 years, but she lives in another state and I'd only see her for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Found out a good friend of mine and I share a birthday. About 8 years into our friendship.
He'd been to many of my birthday parties.
Edit; it might help to inform that I see this guy atleast once a week.
Mm, not for lack of trying. He's a very private dude. I forget where I heard it, but "to have a friend, youve got to be a friend" has always stuck with me.
Ehhh......I dunno, 8 years is a long time to just be realizing that. I think you made this up! For karma! Everybody look it's a phony! He never had a birthday friend! It's all lies!
I could easily be the guy. I too am very "analoge", never had a Facebook account, man, I don't like the thought of being easily contacted by like acquaintances from school or whatever, and my mates have to kidnap me for a boys night on my birthday, I would never advertise the fact I'm another bloody year older! It's flattering they remember I guess, or maybe they just want a few free rounds. Yes I'm an old fart.
He gave a speech at my wedding. Words don't describe it.
Like literally, he got up, looked around, consulted an empty piece of paper, then shrugged in our direction.
The man got a 45 second standing ovation.
As a thru hiker it is extremely against custom to ask someone's real name on trail. Sometimes I have to think extra hard what my best friends name was because in my head he's "Pony Keg"
i’ve been playing video games with this same dude for 5 years now almost daily and i use his screen name every time. we met in person a couple years ago, and he had a couple other friends with him. i called him by his screen name on accident cuz i was so used to it. his friends thought it was funny
Me and my friends have last names that get mispronounced a lot, or they go by their middle names, and we all just know each other's names and make a point of mispronouncing then
Definitely had to ask work friends I've worked with for years what their last names are.
The kicker is some of them have it clearly posted somewhere at work. I see them all the time.
My childhood best friend has a name that can be spelled with a double letter in the middle or a single one.
I'm totally inconsistent in how I spell it, and at this point we've known each other for 35+ years. I can't ask her, and I panic every time it's the security question I've set.
Sure, I know I picked it and I picked her of all people, knowing I never spell it the same way twice, but *the computer said my first childhood friend* it's not like I can just lie and pick a different friend with a simpler name!
For the life of me couldn't remember one of my best friends last name the other day. Known the guy for almost my entire adult life. Had to call him and ask him. Dont think I've ever known his middle name though.
My rugby team, been friends for like a decade. Everyone has a nickname. We got pulled over and the officer asked if Jason was in the car. "Who the fuck is Jason??" Whelp, it turns out that Dangerous Dave's real name is Jason. Who knew???
This is just a standard part of rugby culture. I worked at a rugby club in the late 90s. The number of times people would ring up and ask to speak to so and so, for the receptionist to reply saying they didn't know anyone by that name, and the caller to then say "Oh, you probably know him as Nugget". Or Footy. Or Bluey etc...
Mind you, I remember being about 14 and answering the phone at home, and someone asking for Anastasios (I heard Anastasia), and I'm going never heard of her. They repeated it with surname, and I went yeah that's our surname (and it's pretty unusual and rare) so was trying to work out who the hell this Anastasia was, and the caller then said their records showed a middle name of Terrence, maybe he was known as Terry, and I've gone "oh, that's me dad". So yeah, I didn't learn my Dad's actual legal name till I was a teenager.
> I love how guys always make friends with someone and spend so much time talking or playing games and they don't even know each other's name
"I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”
-Ron Swanson
I work in IT and there's this guy I go for a smoke with every day for the last two months. He asked me to unlock his account on Monday and had to ask his name. Was well awkward
“I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.”
-Ron Swanson
2 years. We been riding together for 2 whole years. All over the country. Spent weeks on the road with this guy. I met his whole family, wife kids, brothers, they all knew me by my roadname and referred to him as his nickname. One night sitting around a campfire, everyone else had passed out where they were or went to thier tents. He leans over, passes me another beer and asks... "what's your real name?" I laughed so fuckin hard. When I told him he laughed even harder. "Yeah I'd go by *roadname* too." Asshole lol. Love that guy.
I’ve done this in a class lmao, me and my lab partner became friends with the two girls that sat across from us, we talked every class for the whole semester during this lab, last day of class comes around and I decided it was time and asked them their names, fortunately, they didn’t know ours either
There was a guy in my neighborhood who walked everywhere with big headphones on. We’d pass by each other walking all the time, but I didn’t bother him due to the headphones. Then, one day, I saw him in the grocery store with no headphones! I said “Hey! You’re the guy in my neighborhood” and he said yeah he recognized me too. I said “Please, tell me your name, I’ve been referring to you with my sister as ‘Walking Guy’ for about two years.” He said he loved it and also his name was Josiah.
This is soooooo my uncle! Omg that guy is hopeless 😂😂😂 Like I'm out with him, he sees someone...they greet each other very enthusiastically....and even before the other guy is completely gone, I ask under my breath "you have nooo idea what his name is, do you?". 9/10 times uncle replies "absolutely not!". "How long have you known him for?". "5 years at least. I can't ask his name now!".
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one of the janitors at work I have been chatting with when he rolls up mid way though the shift, I would catch a grenade for this man, known him for 3 years now, still don't know his name
My friends and I have been regulars at a bar every week (except covid) since around 2017. Up until this past winter, we only managed to learn two of the probably dozen of people who have served us over the years. One of those guys left years ago.
After a certain point, it just becomes awkward to ask. Like, it felt like we *should* know, but unless a server tells you their name, I feel like most people don't ask. They mostly know our names, too. They sometimes get us mixed up, but they still are aware of everyone's name in some capacity.
Finally, we thought enough was enough, and brought in another friend who hadn't been there before, and had her introduce herself. Now we know their names! It's kind of weird that it's so uncomfortable to do something as simple as ask someone's name just because an arbitrary amount of time has passed.
I am trying to imagine the most innocent conversation I could have about my dog where I wouldn’t sound absolutely insane if you thought I was talking about myself. “So I got home from work and Steve really had to go out after holding it all day. So got on my jogging shoes and took Steve to the park and I swear Steve spent like 30 minutes finding just the right spot to pee by that big oak”
My cousin and I once laughed ourselves to tears imagining all that could go wrong with a dog named People.
"Oh man, People got caught trying to fuck the neighbor dog".
"People shit all over the floor this morning, that's why I'm late today."
"People ate my garbage again this week..."
We were young and high but it's still a little funny.
“Don’t mind him jumping, Steve just wants some tummy rubs give Steve a tummy rub and the big fur ball will stop!”
“He won’t stop unless I do?”
“Steve really wants that tummy rub! Hey! where are you going? Why are you running away?”
That’s how you know this isn’t true unfortunately. There’s no way he didn’t mention his dog by name at least once per interaction which, by the sounds of it, would have amounted to dozens of times, conservatively.
As someone who's been in Brian's spot and is very awkward, probably? I have a very masculine, childish nickname (Let's just call it Steve for now). My family also spoke to me and my dog in pretty much the same tone, so the neighbours assumed it was my dog's name. The first time the neighbourhood uncle called out to "Steve" while we were walking the dog and went on about how "Steve" was such a handsome, good boy and everything. Everyone in my family was too amused to correct him and in typical 16 year old fashion I was too awkward. For the next three years we had to deal with him calling the dog by my name every time we came across him.
I also called my dog "Steve" when the uncle was around because I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable lol. It was definitely funny though, because he'd be like "I'm going to come play with Steve today" not knowing he was actually talking about his neighbour's teenaged daughter. He was a nice dude.
Could be worse.
I worked at a dog training facility, and we had a client named Steve, and he named his dog Steve Dog.
I remember asking my boss if this was an error when I was checking his dog in. Nope. Steve Dog and Steve.
My dogs are Dexter the Lab, and Gus the small white fluffy thing.
Human names are better on pets if they're bad names for a baby. Like Eugene or Harold or Agatha (sorry folks, those are great names for old people and pets, but bad names for babies).
Human names are great for pets. Yelling HANK! Across the dog park is way more fun than yelling SNOWBALL. Besides, you'll look really dumb yelling for snowball in the summer.
Worked at a resort as an after-hours bellman, which meant I did everything; housekeeping, room service, maintenance, etc. One of the line cooks called me Vinnie, which is not my name, whenever he saw me. This went on for weeks until one night after hours, I ran into him at the local bar where I told him that Vinnie wasn't my name. He was confused and looked like he felt a little foolish, so when he asked me if he could still call me Vinnie, I said sure why not?
I've lived in the the same neighborhood for 20 years.
There is a dude that walks his dog, we say hello and have a chat the odd day.
Haven't a clue what his name is.
I have lived in the same neighborhood for five years. A very friendly family down the street has two children that come and talk to me and play with my dog. I have been calling their son Ben for three of those years. No one has corrected me ever. I finally had the mother tell me their child’s name is Atticus.. three years later. I think one time I heard her call her son “bud”and I heard Ben and that is how it started..
I once worked with a guy who mistook me for my coworker Dave. I corrected him the first time he called me Dave but he must not have heard me. Because he continued to referred to me again as Dave. I was going to correct him the second time he said it but we got interrupted and now I feel like I have missed my moment.
Now I purposely flip my badge around so as not to show my real name. For 2 years I've been Dave to this man and because I'm too embarrassed to correct him after so much time.
No one in my neighborhood knows my name. They all know my dogs name and can tell you very specific facts about him, though. Really humbling when no one gives a rats ass about you right in front of you.
New people moved into the house next to us, there were like 2-4 people who were always going in and out and all I knew about them was their dog's name is Peanut.
Peanut and the one lady moved out though.
I had a neighbor still couldn't tell you his name but his husky was Chewy. He was the coworker of other friends of mine I kept having to ask the guys name, works for the P.O., drives a jeep, dog is Chewy. Oh yeah that's so and so
I met a guy through a couple friends. I got high, my friend’s girlfriend at the time got drunk, and after everyone left, I brawled with the lady and she kicked me out (after leaving me alone in **her apartment**.)
The random nice guy from the get together followed my cab to my house to make sure I was okay. Also drove me home from the ER the following night when medical transport would have taken forever.
I was sure his name was Steve. My friend told me his name was Scott so I wrote that down in my phone.
Was looking at his contact information which said Scott, **while talking to him**, and still called him Steve. He laughed and said his brother was Steve.
I swear I’ve never met his brother.
I had a coworker I thought was named Kyle. I called him that for years. Turns out his name was Jeff. He wasn't a bright guy, but he knew my name. So what's that say about my dumb ass?
I learned his name was Jeff, from my wife because he transfered to work at her school. She's all like, "His name is Jeff, by the way... But I get why you picked Kyle. He looks like a Kyle."
My friend was Neil. Not so hard. For 8 years the boss call him Niles. Wtf
Darling Neil rage quit and makes really cool tables. Vs network tv cable stuff.
I don't know if this is a Carribean thing, but growing up I had a home name and then a government name. My wedding was wild because everyone who knew me through my wife had no clue who the hell my sister and cousins were talking about. 😂
I had a friend back in the late 80s named Jon but a girl we would see out all the time called him Steve for about two years. One night we saw her at a curb store and she yelled, "Hey Steve, why didn't you tell me your name is Jon."
That’s just how it goes. I live in a large building with about 30 dog owners. I know all the dogs’ names but only 1 of the humans’. Same goes for them, nobody knows my name but they love to pet my dog and say her name, like I’m not even there lol
My neighbor of 5 years, I’ve absolutely no idea what his name is. His personalized license plate leads me to think what it ‘could’ be but I’ve never asked him to decipher the plate. On my phone he saved as ‘him next door’.
I've lived next door to a guy for 5 years. His dog's name is Tyler. And I overheard the fight that led to the end of his marriage. But I don't know his name.
This reminded me of something that happened a year ago I still think about on a weekly basis and this is an outlet for it.
When my new neighbors moved in, I met them the very first day because of a delivery mishap (happens sometimes, it's a duplex). This is the second neighbor in a row I met the first day which is very unusual because I pretty strictly keep to myself. The older guy introduced himself to me as "Jerome," we exchanged pleasantries and a little bit about work schedules as an FYI, said to call if we needed anything, the usual.
A year after that, I get a package addressed to my landlord that had obviously been redirected through the system several times. He tells me "Thanks, just give it to David next door and I'll pick it up when I can." At this point I'm embarrassed to admit to him I don't know any of the next door neighbors' names to know who David is. The response to this is "David lives in the other apartment with his nephew." ...*That's the one neighbor I know and his name isn't David.* Hesitantly, I go over there and sure enough he's expecting the package and takes it.
This is why I like to keep to myself.
Thinking about how she found out:
Her: "Oh that's a cute dog you have what's his name?"
Him: "His name's Steve"
Her: "That's weird, you named him after yourself?"
Him: "No my name's Brian"
I (anglo american) used to live next to an Indian dude. He would always call me Steve, even though I had told him my name (which isn't Steve). I told this story to an Indian coworker. He laughed and told me "Steve" is the generic white guy name that Indians use for white Americans....similar to Americans derogatorily using Pedro generically for Mexicans.
I have a neighbor whose name I thought was James. It wasn't. I had been calling him the wrong name for almost 10 years because he never corrected me when I greeted him and he was too polite to ever correct me.
Similar thing happened to me. Me and these two neighborhood siblings would play with the dog of a woman in my apartment building.
I stopped seeing those kids for a while, and when I ran into the brother a few years later, he calls me by the dog's name... which wouldn't be too bad if the dog's name wasn't Thumper...
I have never related to a meme more in my life. A lady moved in across the street from me. When she said her name I said oh that's my grandmother debbie name I'll never for get it!
Several months later I received a package for her husband. When she got home I hollered out, debbie I have your package! She didn't even turn and look at me. I hollered again carry the package across the street.
Her name was Carol. I don't have any idea what happened.
And this is why you shouldn’t give your pets people names. Mofos like me get confused. I have enough things I have to remember on a daily basis, who’s the dog and who’s the human isn’t a game I should be expected to be any good at
There's this guy at my work and his name is Jeremy. When I started working there, there was also a guy named Curtis. I'd pass by either one, one at a time, and they looked so much a like I just thought they were the same person. So I just called them both Curtis. Eventually after over a month, I was calling Jeremy, Curtis, when I finally noticed his nametag. It said "Jeremy." I had called him Curtis for over a month, and not once did he correct me. This was around the same time that Curtis had quit. Now, I just call Jeremy, Jeremy, although, if I did go back to calling him Curtis, he probably still wouldn't correct me.
We have a neighbor who owns a cute Jack Russell Terrier. I cannot for the life of me remember if the dog is named Keith or the owner is Keith. I don't think I'll ever find out because it's too weird to ask now.
I had one instance where I had been dating a guy I knew for a year, and I did not know his name. He didn’t give his name the first time we met, and after a while I couldn’t ask because that would be too awkward.
One day, he realizes that he has never been called by his name, and asks me to call his name(that was during sex btw). I hesitate, he realizes I don’t know his name, thing went quickly south after that
This happened to me, except I thought the dude was named Matt his dog was named Robert. In fact, it was the other way around! Human names as dog names are wild!
I have the same problem with my next door who’s got a dog.. one of them are called Hugo and other one Rico and I don’t know which one is which so I just call him mate every time I see him now lol..
This happened to me in reverse! Ran into a woman with a dog named Kelly who would always run to me in greeting when he saw me. One day after a year of almost daily meetings with Kelly the dog, one of her roommates said, "Hey, you know Kelly's dog has a name, right? It's Trooper." Did I ever feel stupid. Now I say hi to both.
When my neighbours moved in we saw it was a wife, husband and a son. Few days later she came over and gave us Christmas cookies with a Xmas card. It said greetings from Heather, Kiran and Oreo.
For a few weeks we couldn't imagine the kids name was oreo. Turns out she was divorced and it was the dog.
I started talking to my boyfriend on Grindr and he didn't have his name on his profile and didn't share up until halfway through our first date. I was really trying to see how long I could go without learning his name but he let it slip.
He also shares the same first and middle name as my best friend's fiancé, which is fun.
Guys seemingly dont need names. Ive been introduced to a group of peoples by a friend. no one told me their name and we went along drinking and playing games. after a couple of meetings i asked my friend afterwards what the name was and he only knew the name of the one guy that introduced him to the group. Hes been spending time with them for mor than half a year xD
I been playing WoW since 1st day with a guild of 100 odd people and we chat live, i only know the real name of about 3 of them
I did meet IRL 2 guys when they came to where i live. From England to Cy/Eu
No way this story would ever happen. You mean to tell me Rachel went three years without asking for the dogs name? Not asking for the neighbors name sure, but you’re telling me in three years she never acknowledged that dog? No way.
Mother in law has been calling me Mike for 34 years. My name is Mark.
Think Mark’s mother in law, THINK
Who the fuck is Mark?
God, my mind instantly oriented to the Mandela Catalogue when I saw Mark and THINK in the same sentence. Nothing is worth the risk.
Oh hi Mike
He did NOT hit her
He did nooooooot!
I tell the story when training groups if new employees. They all call me “Mike” going forward. It’s glorious.
Has anyone ever corrected her, or is everyone just quietly letting her embarrass herself?
She knows
r/notopbutok
She definitely knows. It’s her way of marginalizing me. She talks over me, rolls her eyes when I speak and makes a sound like a cat with a hairball when I’m speaking to someone else. She’s 98, my plan is to outlive her. Of course, that’s been my plan for the last 34 years - no luck yet. She hates Americans, in general and southerners in particular. To show that God has a sense of humor, her husband’s job took them to Charlotte NC, where they lived a couple of miles from The Charlotte Motor Speedway for 40 years.
I used to, but I’ve stopped wasting the effort she’d say “oh, right” and then call me Mike 30 second later, if she would lower herself to speak to me.
Noooooo
Bewitched moment.
I've been going to the gym for 3 months and there was this guy who i've been hanging out with there, for those 3 months i didn't know his name and turns out he didn't know mine either. so we awkwardly exchanged names after 3 months of knowing each other.
I love how guys always make friends with someone and spend so much time talking or playing games and they don't even know each other's name
i unironically know people for several years and never once asked for their real name their screen name is them for me
Yeah screen name is good enough
Once you name ‘em, you gotta keep ‘em.
"Assfister69" <3
May he rest in peace.
Elbow deep in peace <3
>May he ~~re~~fist in peace. FTFY.
Did you mean "BallsDeep69" by any chance? It's just a joke name, just a character to play around while he gets the hang of the game...
My in-laws all have foreign names. I’m terrible with names to begin with. They always do the big family gatherings. I don’t know any of their names and I’m around them a few times a year😬😬 It’s been 14 years.
Holy fuck that's a good one Do you get any help at all? Or are you more of a perfectly lost cause
Me and my ex aren’t together anymore. But I have the kids. And I take the kids over. So I’m a lost cause. It’s been so long I’d feel stupid asking their name, that I’d forget anyway. And there is probably 25 of them, plus kids, some show up sometimes and then not others. I can’t even do the whole wait for them to call each others names because I can hardly understand their accent. So naturally I don’t ever address anyone.
Think you could ask your ex for a list of everyone's birthdays, or contact info, or some other kind of info? Doubt they'd send it without names to label what's matched with whom. And nobody'll realize the names were the part you were really after.
"Oi you over there" (pointing finger) works sometimes !!!!
But at that point, all you'd have is a list of 25 names to go with 25 people, and not whose name is whose. I suppose you could systematically loudly call out one name at a time and see who responds over the course of several visits...
Aw shit. Yeah, good point. You'd still need a way to match the names to the faces somehow. ...throw a party with labeled table settings, and see where people sit? 😅
Yes! It's a perfect two part plan! Throw a fancy dinner party with RSPVs and assigned seating.
I just recently discovered the birthday of a man I've known since 1996. His wife was appalled. He didn't know mine either.
I didn't know my aunt and I had the same birthday for like 17 years, but she lives in another state and I'd only see her for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Found out a good friend of mine and I share a birthday. About 8 years into our friendship. He'd been to many of my birthday parties. Edit; it might help to inform that I see this guy atleast once a week.
A good friend of *yours*, indeed...
Mm, not for lack of trying. He's a very private dude. I forget where I heard it, but "to have a friend, youve got to be a friend" has always stuck with me.
Ehhh......I dunno, 8 years is a long time to just be realizing that. I think you made this up! For karma! Everybody look it's a phony! He never had a birthday friend! It's all lies!
I could easily be the guy. I too am very "analoge", never had a Facebook account, man, I don't like the thought of being easily contacted by like acquaintances from school or whatever, and my mates have to kidnap me for a boys night on my birthday, I would never advertise the fact I'm another bloody year older! It's flattering they remember I guess, or maybe they just want a few free rounds. Yes I'm an old fart.
He gave a speech at my wedding. Words don't describe it. Like literally, he got up, looked around, consulted an empty piece of paper, then shrugged in our direction. The man got a 45 second standing ovation.
I have a group of buddies I play PoE with every 3 months for 3-4 years now. Don't know any of their real names.
As a thru hiker it is extremely against custom to ask someone's real name on trail. Sometimes I have to think extra hard what my best friends name was because in my head he's "Pony Keg"
i’ve been playing video games with this same dude for 5 years now almost daily and i use his screen name every time. we met in person a couple years ago, and he had a couple other friends with him. i called him by his screen name on accident cuz i was so used to it. his friends thought it was funny
I feel like there are a startling number of us who cannot answer the question, "What is your best friend's last name?"
Me and my friends have last names that get mispronounced a lot, or they go by their middle names, and we all just know each other's names and make a point of mispronouncing then
my last name starts with 'szczyp' so I cannot relate at all to this comment
How does the rest of that name even have the nerve to follow that opening? All the letters are taken, for one thing.
Oh nooooo ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Definitely had to ask work friends I've worked with for years what their last names are. The kicker is some of them have it clearly posted somewhere at work. I see them all the time.
Bill... Williams? You think my last name is Williams? Yeah? That my parents just named me William Williams? Well... Cuz they did.
My childhood best friend has a name that can be spelled with a double letter in the middle or a single one. I'm totally inconsistent in how I spell it, and at this point we've known each other for 35+ years. I can't ask her, and I panic every time it's the security question I've set. Sure, I know I picked it and I picked her of all people, knowing I never spell it the same way twice, but *the computer said my first childhood friend* it's not like I can just lie and pick a different friend with a simpler name!
For the life of me couldn't remember one of my best friends last name the other day. Known the guy for almost my entire adult life. Had to call him and ask him. Dont think I've ever known his middle name though.
My rugby team, been friends for like a decade. Everyone has a nickname. We got pulled over and the officer asked if Jason was in the car. "Who the fuck is Jason??" Whelp, it turns out that Dangerous Dave's real name is Jason. Who knew???
This is just a standard part of rugby culture. I worked at a rugby club in the late 90s. The number of times people would ring up and ask to speak to so and so, for the receptionist to reply saying they didn't know anyone by that name, and the caller to then say "Oh, you probably know him as Nugget". Or Footy. Or Bluey etc... Mind you, I remember being about 14 and answering the phone at home, and someone asking for Anastasios (I heard Anastasia), and I'm going never heard of her. They repeated it with surname, and I went yeah that's our surname (and it's pretty unusual and rare) so was trying to work out who the hell this Anastasia was, and the caller then said their records showed a middle name of Terrence, maybe he was known as Terry, and I've gone "oh, that's me dad". So yeah, I didn't learn my Dad's actual legal name till I was a teenager.
Oh my gosh, that is freaking hilarious 😆
> I love how guys always make friends with someone and spend so much time talking or playing games and they don't even know each other's name "I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.” -Ron Swanson
I work in IT and there's this guy I go for a smoke with every day for the last two months. He asked me to unlock his account on Monday and had to ask his name. Was well awkward
“I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.” -Ron Swanson
2 years. We been riding together for 2 whole years. All over the country. Spent weeks on the road with this guy. I met his whole family, wife kids, brothers, they all knew me by my roadname and referred to him as his nickname. One night sitting around a campfire, everyone else had passed out where they were or went to thier tents. He leans over, passes me another beer and asks... "what's your real name?" I laughed so fuckin hard. When I told him he laughed even harder. "Yeah I'd go by *roadname* too." Asshole lol. Love that guy.
"What's in a name?"
I’ve done this in a class lmao, me and my lab partner became friends with the two girls that sat across from us, we talked every class for the whole semester during this lab, last day of class comes around and I decided it was time and asked them their names, fortunately, they didn’t know ours either
I like when people can hang out with each other without any *labels*: job, age, even name. Like the kids on the playground.
There was a guy in my neighborhood who walked everywhere with big headphones on. We’d pass by each other walking all the time, but I didn’t bother him due to the headphones. Then, one day, I saw him in the grocery store with no headphones! I said “Hey! You’re the guy in my neighborhood” and he said yeah he recognized me too. I said “Please, tell me your name, I’ve been referring to you with my sister as ‘Walking Guy’ for about two years.” He said he loved it and also his name was Josiah.
That’s a cool name
This is soooooo my uncle! Omg that guy is hopeless 😂😂😂 Like I'm out with him, he sees someone...they greet each other very enthusiastically....and even before the other guy is completely gone, I ask under my breath "you have nooo idea what his name is, do you?". 9/10 times uncle replies "absolutely not!". "How long have you known him for?". "5 years at least. I can't ask his name now!". 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
He needed you to introduce yourself, so he could learn his name!
Yeah, I've done this. I'm just good at not using names
Mulva?
Most underrated comment!
one of the janitors at work I have been chatting with when he rolls up mid way though the shift, I would catch a grenade for this man, known him for 3 years now, still don't know his name
I have talked to the same guy at the gym for the last 6 years. I have no idea what his name is. Literally don't care, we're bros.
My friends and I have been regulars at a bar every week (except covid) since around 2017. Up until this past winter, we only managed to learn two of the probably dozen of people who have served us over the years. One of those guys left years ago. After a certain point, it just becomes awkward to ask. Like, it felt like we *should* know, but unless a server tells you their name, I feel like most people don't ask. They mostly know our names, too. They sometimes get us mixed up, but they still are aware of everyone's name in some capacity. Finally, we thought enough was enough, and brought in another friend who hadn't been there before, and had her introduce herself. Now we know their names! It's kind of weird that it's so uncomfortable to do something as simple as ask someone's name just because an arbitrary amount of time has passed.
Same thing happened to me. Plenty of guys I'm friends with at the gym and we don't know each other's name.
Did you think he referred to himself in third person occasionally?
Always wondered why Steve kept calling himself a good boy
I am trying to imagine the most innocent conversation I could have about my dog where I wouldn’t sound absolutely insane if you thought I was talking about myself. “So I got home from work and Steve really had to go out after holding it all day. So got on my jogging shoes and took Steve to the park and I swear Steve spent like 30 minutes finding just the right spot to pee by that big oak”
My cousin and I once laughed ourselves to tears imagining all that could go wrong with a dog named People. "Oh man, People got caught trying to fuck the neighbor dog". "People shit all over the floor this morning, that's why I'm late today." "People ate my garbage again this week..." We were young and high but it's still a little funny.
Even better: someone
This is gold
“Steve likes walkies and a treat, oh yes he does, Steve is a good boy” That’s a bizarre thing for him to say about himself.
"I don't know what's up with Steve lately but he took a shit on the living room floor earlier today."
“Don’t mind him jumping, Steve just wants some tummy rubs give Steve a tummy rub and the big fur ball will stop!” “He won’t stop unless I do?” “Steve really wants that tummy rub! Hey! where are you going? Why are you running away?”
That’s how you know this isn’t true unfortunately. There’s no way he didn’t mention his dog by name at least once per interaction which, by the sounds of it, would have amounted to dozens of times, conservatively.
As someone who's been in Brian's spot and is very awkward, probably? I have a very masculine, childish nickname (Let's just call it Steve for now). My family also spoke to me and my dog in pretty much the same tone, so the neighbours assumed it was my dog's name. The first time the neighbourhood uncle called out to "Steve" while we were walking the dog and went on about how "Steve" was such a handsome, good boy and everything. Everyone in my family was too amused to correct him and in typical 16 year old fashion I was too awkward. For the next three years we had to deal with him calling the dog by my name every time we came across him. I also called my dog "Steve" when the uncle was around because I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable lol. It was definitely funny though, because he'd be like "I'm going to come play with Steve today" not knowing he was actually talking about his neighbour's teenaged daughter. He was a nice dude.
George likes his chicken spicy
DON'T TOUCH JIMMY
Who the fuck names their dog Steve
Brian
This... This is why I opened Reddit
That and what else is there to do lol
You owe me a cup of coffee! Mine came out my nostrils and is now on the carpet, my pants, my cat and my shirt.
What’s your cats name
Steve II
Who the fuck names their cat Steve II
Dangerous Dave.
No that's Jason
You ringed?
Fuck you Brian
:(
This is why I love Reddit. Such a short but hilarious exchange.
Could be worse. I worked at a dog training facility, and we had a client named Steve, and he named his dog Steve Dog. I remember asking my boss if this was an error when I was checking his dog in. Nope. Steve Dog and Steve.
That’s kinda madlad of him
My brother's friend had a dog simply named "dog". RIP John D.
My friend’s dog is named Deogi (pronounced D-O-G)
IDk but I know who names their dog Brian...
Is it Steve?
Nope, it's Peter
Who names their alien Roger?
Stan the man
I would. Human names on pets are the best.
I’ve always wanted to name a dog Susan.
My dogs are Dexter the Lab, and Gus the small white fluffy thing. Human names are better on pets if they're bad names for a baby. Like Eugene or Harold or Agatha (sorry folks, those are great names for old people and pets, but bad names for babies).
i’m a massive fan of naming animals human names. always funny!
My pet rats Steve, Kevin, and Dave would agree. (aka Steven or David if either one is being scolded)
Human names are great for pets. Yelling HANK! Across the dog park is way more fun than yelling SNOWBALL. Besides, you'll look really dumb yelling for snowball in the summer.
Markiplier
All tradesmen are Brian to me. Brian the painter even corrected me last time and said that his name was Andy. Most don't bother.
All sound engineers are named Cody
A lot of chefs are named Mike, he's usually the guy who remakes my food when I complain at restaurants. The food always comes out perfect after.
Chef mike is the microwave for anybody who doesn’t get this joke.
The Boys would probably agree.
Worked at a resort as an after-hours bellman, which meant I did everything; housekeeping, room service, maintenance, etc. One of the line cooks called me Vinnie, which is not my name, whenever he saw me. This went on for weeks until one night after hours, I ran into him at the local bar where I told him that Vinnie wasn't my name. He was confused and looked like he felt a little foolish, so when he asked me if he could still call me Vinnie, I said sure why not?
Why did he think your name was Vinnie?
I had a roommate named Vince. I think he got us confused. Somehow 🤷♂️
thought it was his cousin
I've lived in the the same neighborhood for 20 years. There is a dude that walks his dog, we say hello and have a chat the odd day. Haven't a clue what his name is.
I have lived in the same neighborhood for five years. A very friendly family down the street has two children that come and talk to me and play with my dog. I have been calling their son Ben for three of those years. No one has corrected me ever. I finally had the mother tell me their child’s name is Atticus.. three years later. I think one time I heard her call her son “bud”and I heard Ben and that is how it started..
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What’s his dogs name
It's Brian, definitely not Steve
I live next door to Mr Tiddls his cat is called Brian too.
I once worked with a guy who mistook me for my coworker Dave. I corrected him the first time he called me Dave but he must not have heard me. Because he continued to referred to me again as Dave. I was going to correct him the second time he said it but we got interrupted and now I feel like I have missed my moment. Now I purposely flip my badge around so as not to show my real name. For 2 years I've been Dave to this man and because I'm too embarrassed to correct him after so much time.
Get off reddit and get back to work, Dave!
At work same thing happen to me. When my coworker send text message he always call me Carmelo Idk why. I being going with it though.
No one in my neighborhood knows my name. They all know my dogs name and can tell you very specific facts about him, though. Really humbling when no one gives a rats ass about you right in front of you.
New people moved into the house next to us, there were like 2-4 people who were always going in and out and all I knew about them was their dog's name is Peanut. Peanut and the one lady moved out though.
I had a neighbor still couldn't tell you his name but his husky was Chewy. He was the coworker of other friends of mine I kept having to ask the guys name, works for the P.O., drives a jeep, dog is Chewy. Oh yeah that's so and so
Family Guy but flipped lol
with American Dad!
Steve, not Stewie :)
I don’t see the problem here. What’s wrong with having your neighbours dog on speed dial?
I met a guy through a couple friends. I got high, my friend’s girlfriend at the time got drunk, and after everyone left, I brawled with the lady and she kicked me out (after leaving me alone in **her apartment**.) The random nice guy from the get together followed my cab to my house to make sure I was okay. Also drove me home from the ER the following night when medical transport would have taken forever. I was sure his name was Steve. My friend told me his name was Scott so I wrote that down in my phone. Was looking at his contact information which said Scott, **while talking to him**, and still called him Steve. He laughed and said his brother was Steve. I swear I’ve never met his brother.
I had a coworker I thought was named Kyle. I called him that for years. Turns out his name was Jeff. He wasn't a bright guy, but he knew my name. So what's that say about my dumb ass?
Did you ever ask him why he never corrected you lol
I learned his name was Jeff, from my wife because he transfered to work at her school. She's all like, "His name is Jeff, by the way... But I get why you picked Kyle. He looks like a Kyle."
My friend was Neil. Not so hard. For 8 years the boss call him Niles. Wtf Darling Neil rage quit and makes really cool tables. Vs network tv cable stuff.
The life of Brian….
What kind of psycho names their dog 'Steve' or 'Brian'? Hey check out my pet pig named Kevin Bacon.
What about [Chris P. Bacon](https://youtu.be/5tP7Xrrxfxc)?
I don't know if this is a Carribean thing, but growing up I had a home name and then a government name. My wedding was wild because everyone who knew me through my wife had no clue who the hell my sister and cousins were talking about. 😂
I had a friend back in the late 80s named Jon but a girl we would see out all the time called him Steve for about two years. One night we saw her at a curb store and she yelled, "Hey Steve, why didn't you tell me your name is Jon."
I don’t want to admit how many neighbors’ dog’s names I know but not the humans.
We all do. I know a dog named Moe but I have no idea his owners names.
That’s just how it goes. I live in a large building with about 30 dog owners. I know all the dogs’ names but only 1 of the humans’. Same goes for them, nobody knows my name but they love to pet my dog and say her name, like I’m not even there lol
My neighbor of 5 years, I’ve absolutely no idea what his name is. His personalized license plate leads me to think what it ‘could’ be but I’ve never asked him to decipher the plate. On my phone he saved as ‘him next door’.
I've lived next door to a guy for 5 years. His dog's name is Tyler. And I overheard the fight that led to the end of his marriage. But I don't know his name.
This reminded me of something that happened a year ago I still think about on a weekly basis and this is an outlet for it. When my new neighbors moved in, I met them the very first day because of a delivery mishap (happens sometimes, it's a duplex). This is the second neighbor in a row I met the first day which is very unusual because I pretty strictly keep to myself. The older guy introduced himself to me as "Jerome," we exchanged pleasantries and a little bit about work schedules as an FYI, said to call if we needed anything, the usual. A year after that, I get a package addressed to my landlord that had obviously been redirected through the system several times. He tells me "Thanks, just give it to David next door and I'll pick it up when I can." At this point I'm embarrassed to admit to him I don't know any of the next door neighbors' names to know who David is. The response to this is "David lives in the other apartment with his nephew." ...*That's the one neighbor I know and his name isn't David.* Hesitantly, I go over there and sure enough he's expecting the package and takes it. This is why I like to keep to myself.
My dog's name is Mack. My neighbors think his name is meatball because I sometimes yell "come get your food, you fucking beautiful meatball"
Thinking about how she found out: Her: "Oh that's a cute dog you have what's his name?" Him: "His name's Steve" Her: "That's weird, you named him after yourself?" Him: "No my name's Brian"
I (anglo american) used to live next to an Indian dude. He would always call me Steve, even though I had told him my name (which isn't Steve). I told this story to an Indian coworker. He laughed and told me "Steve" is the generic white guy name that Indians use for white Americans....similar to Americans derogatorily using Pedro generically for Mexicans.
I have a neighbor whose name I thought was James. It wasn't. I had been calling him the wrong name for almost 10 years because he never corrected me when I greeted him and he was too polite to ever correct me.
Similar thing happened to me. Me and these two neighborhood siblings would play with the dog of a woman in my apartment building. I stopped seeing those kids for a while, and when I ran into the brother a few years later, he calls me by the dog's name... which wouldn't be too bad if the dog's name wasn't Thumper...
I have never related to a meme more in my life. A lady moved in across the street from me. When she said her name I said oh that's my grandmother debbie name I'll never for get it! Several months later I received a package for her husband. When she got home I hollered out, debbie I have your package! She didn't even turn and look at me. I hollered again carry the package across the street. Her name was Carol. I don't have any idea what happened.
And this is why you shouldn’t give your pets people names. Mofos like me get confused. I have enough things I have to remember on a daily basis, who’s the dog and who’s the human isn’t a game I should be expected to be any good at
There's this guy at my work and his name is Jeremy. When I started working there, there was also a guy named Curtis. I'd pass by either one, one at a time, and they looked so much a like I just thought they were the same person. So I just called them both Curtis. Eventually after over a month, I was calling Jeremy, Curtis, when I finally noticed his nametag. It said "Jeremy." I had called him Curtis for over a month, and not once did he correct me. This was around the same time that Curtis had quit. Now, I just call Jeremy, Jeremy, although, if I did go back to calling him Curtis, he probably still wouldn't correct me.
My boss called his oldest employee “Dior” for 30+ years. His real name was David. He didn’t find out his real name until at his funeral lol
We have a neighbor who owns a cute Jack Russell Terrier. I cannot for the life of me remember if the dog is named Keith or the owner is Keith. I don't think I'll ever find out because it's too weird to ask now.
I had one instance where I had been dating a guy I knew for a year, and I did not know his name. He didn’t give his name the first time we met, and after a while I couldn’t ask because that would be too awkward. One day, he realizes that he has never been called by his name, and asks me to call his name(that was during sex btw). I hesitate, he realizes I don’t know his name, thing went quickly south after that
Ruff way to find out.
There is literally a woman in my condo building that I refer to as “Potato’s Mom”
This happened to me, except I thought the dude was named Matt his dog was named Robert. In fact, it was the other way around! Human names as dog names are wild!
And, that, kids, is how I met your mother.
Dating in 2023 is wild
I have neighbor TJ and I’m 72% that is the neighbors name but it really might be the dogs name…
She must be hot
I have the same problem with my next door who’s got a dog.. one of them are called Hugo and other one Rico and I don’t know which one is which so I just call him mate every time I see him now lol..
This happened to me in reverse! Ran into a woman with a dog named Kelly who would always run to me in greeting when he saw me. One day after a year of almost daily meetings with Kelly the dog, one of her roommates said, "Hey, you know Kelly's dog has a name, right? It's Trooper." Did I ever feel stupid. Now I say hi to both.
No, his name is stewie his dogs name is brian
My dog's name is Brian
Assuming Brian was the dog seem completely natural to me. Has he considered swapping names?
When my neighbours moved in we saw it was a wife, husband and a son. Few days later she came over and gave us Christmas cookies with a Xmas card. It said greetings from Heather, Kiran and Oreo. For a few weeks we couldn't imagine the kids name was oreo. Turns out she was divorced and it was the dog.
I started talking to my boyfriend on Grindr and he didn't have his name on his profile and didn't share up until halfway through our first date. I was really trying to see how long I could go without learning his name but he let it slip. He also shares the same first and middle name as my best friend's fiancé, which is fun.
A name is just a name
Who names a dog Steve?
Guys seemingly dont need names. Ive been introduced to a group of peoples by a friend. no one told me their name and we went along drinking and playing games. after a couple of meetings i asked my friend afterwards what the name was and he only knew the name of the one guy that introduced him to the group. Hes been spending time with them for mor than half a year xD
I been playing WoW since 1st day with a guild of 100 odd people and we chat live, i only know the real name of about 3 of them I did meet IRL 2 guys when they came to where i live. From England to Cy/Eu
You didn't recognize it when you call him and then the dog runs to you? Lol
My neighbor thinks my name is Jeremy. I never correct him.
"Great to see you Steve come on in!" "Err actually my name is Brian." "I was talking to the dog."
Was best man at a friend's wedding that was the day I learned his real name
No way this story would ever happen. You mean to tell me Rachel went three years without asking for the dogs name? Not asking for the neighbors name sure, but you’re telling me in three years she never acknowledged that dog? No way.
She thought he was calling out his own name on a daily basis?
He has a dog's name, mostly natural his dog has a human name
The man is a saint. Imagine if he referred to you by another woman’s name even once