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Originally Posted by Grasshopper Green
...but it certainly doesn't make me feel special when someone calls me by first name since I go by my middle name (I use my first name on my credit cards, bills, etc.). It simply alerts me to the fact that this person doesn't really know me all that well....
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Plus one on this! Just about anyone who knows me socially, professionally, even casually through friends calls me Lindy, which is a diminutive of my surname. My given name is Sophia,
which I've hated since I was a little girl. It's on official stuff, like my plastic, my checks, driver's license, library card, etc. If you must address me by name, Ms. Lind***** is OK, but if you call me Sophia you've already got two strikes and a rubber bat.
My aversion to flying means that I drive across the country several times a year on a fairly regular route on Interstates 90, 80, 70 and a few others. I have regular gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and have accounts in a couple of small town banks. In those situations, it's nice to be called by name, or to see that spark of recognition
even if they don't remember my name. But pleeease don't call me Sophia.
Lindy