Linda

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

Where I work I run across a lot of older (50-60+ ) women. Immediately I noticed a lot of them were named Linda. I looked it up and saw in the time frame they were born, it was a top ten name (it skyrocketed for some reason from 89 to 2 around 1940). And let me tell you, it's confusing when a lady calls, I ask who it is, and they say Linda as though that's supposed to give me a clue. Even the lady I replaced at work was named Linda, and the lady I work with would have been named Linda, except the woman down the street named her daughter Linda, so the lady's mother named her something else.

It's interesting to have a preview of when this generation grows up, and all the grannies are named Madison & Emma.

"And who may I say is calling?"
"Just tell her it's Emma."
Like that's supposed to help.

Comments

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

whoa, that paragraph is a great example of when you say a word too many times it loses all meaning and stops sounding like a word. lol

Linda. it doesn't even sound like a name to me right now.

ok, really though, that's one in a set of names that were crazy popular like that in the same time frame. and I thusly hate them all now bc it seems like it's everyone's name. someone already mentioned Nancy. There's also Donna & Debbie.