Talking about names....what else? lol

[isoldereverie.livejournal.com]

I met a 51 year old man named Happymore yesterday. Made me think of Happy Gilmore,but obviously this gentleman was born waaay before that movie was made.

Also met a 60 something woman named Fern. I commented that she has a lovely name and she replied that I was the third person that day to tell her so. She went on to say that something so simple just made her day and "filled her with smiles" :-) She was such a sweet old duck. Do you compliment others on their name if you like it? Do you ever ask about people's names or do you feel that would be too intrusive?

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[wistfuljen.livejournal.com]

I used to work in a bakery as a cake decorator, years ago, and there was this one family who came in ALL THE TIME for birthday cakes because the wife kept getting pregnant. I don't recall any of the kids' names now (this was like ten years ago) but they were all nice names. When she was pregnant with their ninth, the husband came in to pick up a cake for her baby shower and I joked "heh, some day you two are going to run out of cute names!" and he was like "I KNOW DON'T REMIND ME!!!" He was seriously SO PISSED OFF. I have kind of shut off my complimenting of names since then.

Oh, except one time when my husband and I went out for lunch and we had a waitress named Catalina. Totally not my style, but it suited her SO well and I told her so.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Wow. You'd think he'd take some responsibility for that, eh?

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

XD I like that story.