. . This was really interesting to read. Had I had any idea that you would still be okay with Shirley, I'd almost certainly still be calling you that. But I was among a group of people you specifically told you'd like to be known to as Laney, I switched it -- and now you're just automatically "Laney" in my brain. As such, since you're now apparently giving people a completely open option between the two, I'll probably just continue calling you Laney, because that's who you are to me right now.
Honestly, the one and only thing that irritates me about this scenario is the auto-fill in my emails, because I constantly try writing in "Laney," and then I have to remember that it only auto-fills if I start with "Shirley," as then it fills in with "Shirley (Laney)." I didn't program this in, mind you; my email simply took that from how the emails were received.
Gabe, by the way, actually goes by Gabriel now, and has for several years. I would have started calling him Gabriel if he specifically asked me to start calling him that (as opposed to just saying Gabriel is what he goes by now; there's a difference!). He has never protested my continuing to call him Gabe, though, which I do because that's how I've always known him.
You never made a huge deal out of it either, but you did make a specific point at one time of saying you'd like people to start calling you Laney. (The big difference with Gabe, I think, was that he simply changed the way he started introducing himself to people -- he never spoke to people he already knew and made a specific request to change.) That's really why I made the switch with you and not with him.
P.S. Matthew means "Gift of God." As if you didn't know that about me already, right? . .
Gift of God, God's gift to humanity, six in one, half dozen in another :-)
I could always legally change my name to Shirlaney, but it is reminiscent of someone whith lots of cellulite who lives in a trailer park. Not that there's anything *wrong* with cellulite or trailer parks, but, you know what I mean.
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This was really interesting to read. Had I had any idea that you would still be okay with Shirley, I'd almost certainly still be calling you that. But I was among a group of people you specifically told you'd like to be known to as Laney, I switched it -- and now you're just automatically "Laney" in my brain. As such, since you're now apparently giving people a completely open option between the two, I'll probably just continue calling you Laney, because that's who you are to me right now.
Honestly, the one and only thing that irritates me about this scenario is the auto-fill in my emails, because I constantly try writing in "Laney," and then I have to remember that it only auto-fills if I start with "Shirley," as then it fills in with "Shirley (Laney)." I didn't program this in, mind you; my email simply took that from how the emails were received.
Gabe, by the way, actually goes by Gabriel now, and has for several years. I would have started calling him Gabriel if he specifically asked me to start calling him that (as opposed to just saying Gabriel is what he goes by now; there's a difference!). He has never protested my continuing to call him Gabe, though, which I do because that's how I've always known him.
You never made a huge deal out of it either, but you did make a specific point at one time of saying you'd like people to start calling you Laney. (The big difference with Gabe, I think, was that he simply changed the way he started introducing himself to people -- he never spoke to people he already knew and made a specific request to change.) That's really why I made the switch with you and not with him.
P.S. Matthew means "Gift of God." As if you didn't know that about me already, right?
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I could always legally change my name to Shirlaney, but it is reminiscent of someone whith lots of cellulite who lives in a trailer park. Not that there's anything *wrong* with cellulite or trailer parks, but, you know what I mean.
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Indeed, I do!
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