And the people there are very nice. The senior librarians are mostly older ladies who would pretty much fit the description of 'librarian' with the cashmere sweater draped over their shoulders and the horn-rimmed glasses they peer over. One of them is a dead-ringer for Miss Hathaway of 'Beverly Hillbillies' fame, right down to the voice and mannerisms.
And they give me a warm hello when I come in. Though for some reason, one of them calls me 'Dean'...which is no big deal, but after six months it's become a comical dilemma. I'm dreading the day when she learns she's been calling me by the wrong name all this time...and it doesn't help that I answer to Dean.
"How ya doin' Dean! stayin' outta trouble?"
"Oh hi Joan! yeah I'm always outta trouble."
"Haha!"
So it's probably too late to say, "Oh by the way, it's Dan, not Dean." I should have said that way back when. And it's odd that others call me Dan within earshot of Joan, but I guess her attention is focused elsewhere. I worry that she'll be utterly embarrassed and maybe even mad when she finds out I'm Dan, that I didn't correct her sooner. But there came a point of no return after I just started answering to 'Dean'...
Actually, I'm prepared for the eventuality...I'll just shrug and say something like, "Oh it's close enough, it's just an extra E." And that will be that, I hope...because after six months it may be hard to start calling someone by a different name, and answering to it for that matter. But until that day comes, 'Dean' it is...
haha! Oh that's hilarious! And I can totally feel that underlieing stress you feel each time she calls you Dean!!! "Chieffff!"
ReplyDeleteEarlier today at my aunt's 80th birthday party, a woman came up to my sister Kelly and said, "Hi Shawn, I'd like to introduce you to so-n-so" and Kelly went right along with it. She'd say, "Are you doing much more on your house? Painting more walls?" And Kelly said "Well, we did paint our living room last year..." and near the end of the party, my cousin Tom said, "Well, it's good to see you Kelly!!" And the lady stopped and said, "What? But you have been pretending to be Shawn all along!" I think Kelly told me that she said that "yes, but I drove with her and she was planning on telling me about the conversation later." Anyway..... Good luck and that's great you're volunteering at the library!
Thanks Shawn! oh that's funny too about Kelly! yeah sometimes it's easier to just go along with it..
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