• @[email protected]
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    442 days ago

    yup, my lineage ends with me. goodbye awful family name that i have to spell every time i visit a restaurant

    • Norah - She/They
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      41 day ago

      Here’s a little secret I learnt, you can just change your awful family name if you want too :3

    • @InputZero
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      41 day ago

      You know you can give them a fake name. I’ve known several people who had a go-to name for restaurant reservations or something because their last name was just too complicated or too common. No one’s checking ID.

      • @Squorlple
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        192 days ago

        Cartwright? Cartwright?

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          82 days ago

          We used to call each other by the surnames in middle school.

          That is very much not standard. Everyone just did it. I didn’t even remember to respond to my first name the first few weeks of high school.

          • Captain Aggravated
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            42 days ago

            That was my experience in most shop environments, you just start getting called by your surname.

          • @Squorlple
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            32 days ago

            I’ve only seen that for people with similar first names as other people in a school or workplace. Then again, I was born just before the Brayden/Ayden/Mxyzptlkayden generation.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 days ago

          Are they checking identification? Why not just say you’re Abe Froman to the Maître d’?

    • @Soup
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      72 days ago

      You spell your last name at restaurants? First names at a busy Starbucks but…?

        • @Soup
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          52 days ago

          I guess I just don’t go to so many restaurants thst need reservations for it to be a big deal, and I think in the past it’s even been occasionally just a phone number. But fair enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        yup where i live it’s customary, but also to book anything on the phone or in person, i just hate my last name

    • @Noodle07
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      11 day ago

      Changed my name for my mom’s omg it’s so much easier