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yup, my lineage ends with me. goodbye awful family name that i have to spell every time i visit a restaurant
Here's a little secret I learnt, you can just change your awful family name if you want too :3
i'll get married someday and then will change my name, but that's low priority right now
You know you can give them a fake name. I've known several people who had a go-to name for restaurant reservations or something because their last name was just too complicated or too common. No one's checking ID.
i started doing that and using my first name, much easier :)
Who's asking for your last name every time you're going to a restaurant?
Cartwright? Cartwright?
in france that's very standard
We used to call each other by the surnames in middle school.
That is very much not standard. Everyone just did it. I didn't even remember to respond to my first name the first few weeks of high school.
I’ve only seen that for people with similar first names as other people in a school or workplace. Then again, I was born just before the Brayden/Ayden/Mxyzptlkayden generation.
Reservations?
Are they checking identification? Why not just say you're Abe Froman to the Maître d'?
You spell your last name at restaurants? First names at a busy Starbucks but…?
Isn’t it standard to give your last name for table reservations?
I guess I just don’t go to so many restaurants thst need reservations for it to be a big deal, and I think in the past it’s even been occasionally just a phone number. But fair enough.
yup where i live it's customary, but also to book anything on the phone or in person, i just hate my last name
The same happens with me all the time