Usually, we hear stories from people with weirdnamesabout how hard it is to live with a name like theirs. But, apparently, people are getting so used to strange names that “normal” ones make them distraught.
Today’s story is one of these cases. A woman with a common name angered a pharmacist who tried to spell it oddly. And, well, after being called out for having a normal name, the woman came toRedditto vent. And she found out that this kind of occurrence isn’t so rare.
It seems that certain common names seem weird to some people nowadays
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A woman went to the pharmacy to get her prescription, and she gave her name and didn’t think there would be any trouble
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But then, the pharmacist decided to spell her name unusually and got mad at the woman that her name was spelled in a common way
Today’s OP told her story in the subredditr/tragedeigh, which is, according to its description, meant to discuss names that have been deliberately misspelled or made to appear unique. Interestingly, this author’s story is about the exact opposite thing — a normally spelled name. Or being scolded for having one, to be more specific. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
One day, the author went to the pharmacy to pick up her prescription. Typically, when picking up prescriptions, people need togivecertain details of the person who themedicineis for: name, date of birth, phone number, etc.
So, the woman gave her name. She noted that hers is a very commonly used one and has atraditionalspelling. As an example, she gave the name Chloe, even though it isn’t her real name.
That’s where thepharmaciststarted to struggle. For about a minute, she fought with the checkout machine, likely trying to find a prescription under the name. But the search wasn’t successful, and she turned to the OP, asking her to spell the name.
The woman told her how it was spelled, which caused the pharmacist to lash out. Apparently, she was trying to spell the name with a K instead of a C. So, as an example, instead of Chloe, which is a more common spelling, she tried to spell Khloe. So, she lost her cool because, apparently, it wasted so much of her time. Remember how we said she struggled for like a minute? Well, that’s a lot oftimefor her.
We could say that this pharmacist fell victim to the weird name “epidemic.” As we mentioned in the beginning, there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to these kinds of names, but the situation is actually way bigger than that.
Today, way fewer people feel the need to conform to traditions. In1950,more than 30% of boys were given a top-10 name. Then, in 2007, less than 10% of boys were given a name from that list. Quite a drastic change, isn’t it?
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The name was denied because the judge felt that it might result in the mockery of a child. Well, that’s a valid thought. After all, a name is one of the things that construct a person’sidentity, both in their own mind and socially.
People tend to make snap judgments about each other, and names are one of the things that can create that judgment. So, in a way, naming a kid with an overly unique name can have quite many negative repercussions.
Another result of this “epidemic” is that people are getting used to weird names, which results in situations just like the one today’s OP experienced. Yet, it’s way harder to decide whether it’s a good or bad outcome.
On the one hand, we could say that people are getting more tolerant of each other. After all, the world we live in is very diverse and that people are learning to tolerate this fact is surely a great thing.
Yet, others, just like the pharmacist in today’s story, are getting too comfortable with these unique names. This results in traditionally named people getting basically bullied for no reason. And that’s an extreme we shouldn’t go to.
So, the woman vented about it on Reddit, where many people shared that they had experienced similar scenarios
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