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brutallyhonest's picture

Submitted by brutallyhonest on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 4:06pm

So my grandma has this weird habit where she makes seating assignments for family dinners with name cards. Because my SIL and I have the same name, we had been labeled as firstname R.B. and firstname B. for years now. I've decided to keep my last name for a variety of reasons, no hyphen, just my same name since birth. Well now that DH and I are married, grandma decided that I am now to be known in the family as "first name B.O." and that is what my new name card says at the dinner table.

In case you missed it, I'm now stinky firstname. Bad enough I have to share my name with my SIL, but now I'm being assigned initials that I haven't taken and that indicates I stink.

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Couldawouldashoulda's picture

Submitted by Couldawouldashoulda on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 4:17pm

@ Stinky: j/k Biggrin

@ Brutal: Can you make up a cute name for grandma's initials and call her them, maybe a nice way for her to get the point w/out being an ass?

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Submitted by caregiver1127 on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 4:23pm

Hey bring your own name card and tell her you are taking a class in name card making and you wanted to show everyone how well you are doing - and then rip up the BO on - or tell GMA - that you would just prefer your first name and bring a big black marker - cross out the initials and put your first name instead - seriously I would do this - people who know me know I would do this. It's bad enough you have to take care of his kids you don't need BO on your card and then the kids start calling you that.

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Submitted by brutallyhonest on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 5:19pm

I suppose I should have mentioned grandma didn't randomly pick "O" DH's name starts with "O". Nothing wrong with DH's last name. It is a fine Irish last name. The name tag issue did make me think about initials since I hadn't even consider that in my decision to keep my name.

I think my brothers will solve this one for me, they thought my name tag was hilarious and spent all night making jokes about how I smell. It hadn't even dawned on grandma until it was pointed out to her and she assumed I'd be using the new "O" last name some how.

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Submitted by Marie Antionette on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 9:12pm

And I thought my family was stuffy with the silverware layout. . . place cards? There had better be shrimp forks. I'm just saying.

I think its just blissful innocence, example: my company released an invite for "Managing Your Credit 101". They specifically sent it to two groups in our staff, the Women's Network and the African Heritage network. Now I KNOW they didnt mean it, but I was by far not the only person giggling-drop jawed and wondering why they would think skirts and blacks would need credit help. Hmmmm . . .

I'm thinking gammy didnt notice. and next time bring some glitter glue and sharpies and dress up the placquard a bit, sub-text the letters with B-etter O-verall. Or tip a grandkid to put the card ontop of a travel stick of deoderant, to make the slight ridiculously obvious when the bell is rung. Because if she's got place cards, she really has to have a bell.