Everyone is different, I understand that. I wouldn’t want to live in a world where everyone is the same (unless they were the same as Pamela Anderson and I was a fifteen year-old boy, of course, in which case of course I damn well would). But why, oh why, can’t people, when they are introducing themselves at a party, not just say their name normally? Maybe it’s just me, but I have noticed a frightening trend. One where someone introduces themselves in an aggravatingly obnoxious way–
Ot goes like this: “Hello”, I say, “my name is Roger”. Notice how I said Roger in a normal and easy to understand way. Fine, wasn’t it? Now comes the turn of the guy I am introducing myself to. “Hello”, he says, “my name is DANiel”.
“DANiel?” I reply, for no reason other than being baffled and wanting to make my being baffled pretty obvious so as to rub it in his face that he had started the baffling, and by golly I was finishing it!
“Yes”, he says, all pleased with himself.
“Oh”, I say, “how most excellent”.
Now, I could cope with one person putting the first half of their name in CAPITAL LETTERS, but why does everyone have to do it? Worse some do the following: second most annoyingly (Rupert) and first most annoyingly, DEREK.
For some time I thought it was just me being over-sensitive. Then, one day on the tube ride home I witnessed a conversation between two newly meeting people which was made entirely in underlined and bolded words. That tipped me over the edge, and I ended up leaving the train half an hour early, made to walk home with nightmares of future italicized names and terrible parties where Happy Birthday was sung entirely in point 10 Monotype Corsiva–
Before I go, I am trying to think of something for my mother for her Birthday. When I was on the phone with her the other day she said that she would like a new set of running watches . Does anyone know of a good place to get them, or for that matter, what the hell they are?
