Old-School Honger Names
I know we've had many years at Burnett (and me in UBC Commerce) making fun of extreme Honger names like Foccacia and Dingleberry or Julipia and more of the crazy sort, and I don't know which bug me more - the crazy names of randomly stringed together syllables or the Old-School Honger names like Kitty and Mary.
Every morning I walk by this Chinese girl's desk at work and she looks pretty Honger. The other day I scanned her desk nametag and her name is Melody. "Melody", I thought. "Yuck. So old-fashioned that only Hongers 30 or 40 years ago would have chosen it." THEN I REALIZED - My name is MAY. It is the penultimate of Old-School Honger names. And to top it off, my name is May Lee. AND it doesn't help that May is also an Old-School Anglo-Saxon name. You can just imagine there are some Grandma Mays out there living in the countryside.
I walked back to my desk with my head hanging in shame.
Every morning I walk by this Chinese girl's desk at work and she looks pretty Honger. The other day I scanned her desk nametag and her name is Melody. "Melody", I thought. "Yuck. So old-fashioned that only Hongers 30 or 40 years ago would have chosen it." THEN I REALIZED - My name is MAY. It is the penultimate of Old-School Honger names. And to top it off, my name is May Lee. AND it doesn't help that May is also an Old-School Anglo-Saxon name. You can just imagine there are some Grandma Mays out there living in the countryside.
I walked back to my desk with my head hanging in shame.