Pickles by Brian Crane for March 01, 2021

Not too many people named Basil. It’s actually a FINE name. Look up its meaning some time. Royalty!

When I used to volunteer work at a thrift store (not Goodwill), one other other staff members accidentally called me Simon. I told her that’d be like me calling her Alice.

Earl, you are so awesome!

Oddly enough, my name isn’t Wild Bill but there was a Customer Service Engineer who called that.

I had lots of nicknames in my life as I have an unusual name, made me feel part of the group!

Looks like Earl didn’t suffer too much damage from his mustache being yanked yesterday…

Call him “Herb”.

People get my name wrong so often that I no longer bother to correct them. I answer to just about anything … Ron, Rod, Roy, Mike, Bill, Sue, Mr. Bulk, Incredible Bulk, and a few not fit to print.

Fun fact: people named Scott are always getting called “Todd”. And vice versa. Nobody knows why.

Huh. Generally speaking, unless it’s a work-related situation, if people call me the wrong name, I let it go without comment.

Just don’t call me late for supper.

With some people, once they get it in their head…..forget it!

There was an executive in the company who thought my name was Peter. It isn’t but I never corrected him. Every time he addressed me in a meeting, I could see people smirk. Perfect. He was a jerk.

I don’t care what you call me. Just don’t call me late for dinner.

The new text voice mail (another example of artificial intelligence?) invariably addresses me as Don or John. Does my avatar suggest either? I can deal with that but not the frequent gibberish in the message.

Two old guys on a bench………

Windy today isn’t it?

Naw, it’s Thursday.

Me too – Let’s go for a beer,

Just don’t call me late for dinner

And this is what keeps the hearing aid folks in business!

See, it works for them both of them, no confrontation!

Character flaw, I have a lot of trouble remembering names, so I use There as an all-purpose replacement. As in—" Oh, hello There!"

Curmudgeons be vicious!

I knew a Danish woman whose name was Wenke, and I didn’t exactly know how to pronounce it correctly, and to be honest when I heard it I still wasn’t able to say it right. Another American co-worker, who happened to speak Danish would laugh at me when I would say the name. When I asked why, her response was – “so typically American – you wouldn’t call someone name Vicki, Wicki would you?”

All right, hearing aids for all of them! That should help.

My father went to school in the 1930s with a boy named Hazel. The boy’s father was also named Hazel.

I had a buddy in the Army that everyone called “Haze”, but I don’t think it was because his name was Hazel

He should call him nasal. He probably smells

In the show “Only fools and horses” Trigger always called Rodney, “Dave”

No one knew why!

My grandparents (mother’s parents) were Hazel and Basil.