Do I accept I'm Val?

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One of my neighbours is a lovely old lady in her 80s.
She loves my OH and they dog walk together. He helps her with anything she needs and she knows she is welcome at our house for anything I think!
She's lovely and how is lime to be in my 80s!

But
She thinks I'm called val!
I'm not.
I'm not that old! 😂
I'm not that bothered and will
Happily answer to val but it's not my name....should I correct her or forget it and be val!?
It made me laugh today . (Unless the OH has another woman called val!)

My husband's grandmother thinks my name is Sally. It is not sally but she is starting to show signs of dementia so if she asks who I am and I say Sally then she knows who I am

A few years ago we got a Christmas card from neighbours addressed to Juanbablo and Phillip? Dh is not called Phillip. I thought it was hilarious. Especially the question mark! The husband of this couple also though that ds2 was a girl for about 6 months too.

well now my only dilemma is whether to write a chirstmas card back as my alter ego...

i might leave it to my OH

A mum of one of my DSs friends always called me by the wrong name. Called me by something that began with the same letter, but there the similarity ended. I corrected her the first few times, but whenever I met her again she stuck to the wrong one. We even were friends on FB as we had a class group. Goodness knows why she thought I had the wrong name on my profile 😁

One of my neighbours thinks my name is Amy. It’s not

I corrected her the first few times, but it’s been nearly 7 years now and I kind of feel there’s a time limit on stuff like this and it’s all too awkward to bring it up now so I’ve embraced the Amy

It caused some confusion at a neighbours (who know my name isn’t Amy) bbq in the summer, but we just ignored it and carried on with Amy

Many moons ago an old neighbour thought my name was May. It's nothing like that. I actually used to send her postcards (told you it was many moons ago) signed May.

Most British thread ever

DH mentioned that the new couple that had moved in down the road were called Sam and Jean. I would say Hi Sam to him and Hi Jean to her when ever I saw them. After about 5 years I said something about Sam and his car to DH - he look blankly at me so I said Sam at number 22 and his new car. DH said Sam is a woman. Turn out that they are Sam(antha) and Gene (as in Kelly) rather than Sam(uel) and Jean (as in Harlow) as I had assumed. I was secretly delighted to hear another neighbour shout Hi Jean at her the other day.

That's funny, I don't think I could correct her and would have to be Val. I spent weeks of riding lessons being called 'Madison' because I couldn't bear to correct the instructor. It grew on me in the end and I was quote disappointed when I had to revert to my own rather dull name.

Burlea Wed 19-Dec-18 09:14:09

I was the first girl in the family for 3 generations, grandma wanted me to be called Lydia (not my name) but I always got cards addressed as such. Fast forward to my wedding and when the vicar read out my name she said very loudly why is he calling her *.

Wow - it sounds like your Mum would have benefited from being able to rant on MN about her MIL. Have you ever discussed this Lydia thing with her???? Did it drive her mad?

We called our ndn Ivy for 10 years. When we moved she gave us a good luck card saying "btw my name is actually Eileen..."

My FIL calls me Joy, Joyce, Joan, Jeannie, Jem, Jilly - none of which are my name. It does begin with J though, he's not that far out but it makes me laugh. His neighbours do a double take when he introduces me to them, as they know me by my actual name and he says "oh you know my dil [random J name] "

DH and I are referred to as Sue and Mel.

We are not named Sue and Mel, and our names do not begin with those letters

We met a nice older couple on holiday, and the husband introduced them as "Hi, we are Mike and Shelley." I called her Shelley all week, then remarked to someone else in the group what an unusual name Shelley was for someone in their sixties. She looked surprised and said " She's not Shelley, she's Shirley!"

Is Val an old persons name? I never knew that!
You don't hear of too many of them but I met the most gorgeous 6 or 7 year old Val in the park recently

I love the Katherine/Saffron confusion. Along the same lines, there's a Rory in my extended family, and when he was born, someone misheard the name on the phone and said "but isn't Maureen usually a girl's name?"

My elderly neighbour used to call me something that sounded like my name but without the final consonant. Both are possible names (so something like Jo vs Joan). I was embarrassed to say anything for about 2 years and then I just pretended I'd only just noticed. They're fairly easily mishearable after all. Another old lady in the area used to call my DS1 by a short from of his name he didn't like and never accepted from anyone else, but to his credit he sussed that she was a bit deaf and never made a fuss about it.

My mum's previous neighbours were called Rod and Elaine. Their neighbours on the other side repeatedly addressed their Christmas card to Ron and Yvonne

Rachel here, and have been since I started at my current job 😂 I just answer to it and crack on...

This is so embarrassing. Some years ago we had a neighbour who I was convinced was called Gaylord - or maybe I'd been watching one of the Meet The Fockers films when I was writing our Christmas cards - but I wrote his card to Gaylord (please note that DP, who knew him better than I did, didn't bother to tell me I'd got his name wrong). His card back to us was signed from GARFIELD (in caps!!)

Can I be forgiven for getting Gaylord/Garfield confused?!?!

Hulloa your post reminded me, there’s a song called ‘My name is not Susan’. I think it’s by Whitney Houston? You could set it as your ringtone or something!

My mum had a boyfriend back in her university days who introduced himself with a strong Welsh accent. She asked him to repeat himself and got the same answer. "Wool", she thought, "that's unusual". I'm not sure how long they dated before she discovered his name was of course, Will!

I get called Rachel by different people all the time! My names Claudia so maybe i just look like a rachel?

DH has a friend who sends us (well, it’s clearly his wife who sends it) a card every Christmas to me, DH, DS and ‘Amber’. We have a DD but her name isn’t Amber. It’s nothing like Amber.

I send one back every year with Amber’s real name, to no effect.

Years ago at Uni I knew a guy called Baz, he was quite rough looking, his stuff was old, didn't seem to have much etc but he was very likeable - everyone, even professors referred to him as Baz. At the end of term I was going to drive back home to my family, he asked for a lift as it was kind of on the way and he offered to pay some petrol money - all good.

He directed me to the village where he lived and pointed out a long, winding drive with an avenue of trees through massive gates and said "That's my house" - it was huge (like maybe 30 rooms).I said "Yes sure it is, is it this one really?" and he replied "No, that's our gatehouse". He really did live in this massive house with a river in the garden, massive lawn, tennis courts. When we got there his mother said to me "So, how do you know Charles then?" And I wanted to say "Who is Charles?" But I realised, in the nick of time, it was the guy we all knew as Baz!

We used to live in a not-so-desirable area. The woman opposite was an alcoholic who literally never left the house without an open can of Stella in her hand. This led to her being known as Stella in our house (before we knew what her name really was). Once I'd got chatting to her, I think her name was Debbie or something but I could never actually remember as she had been Stella in my mind for so long! I used to have to stop myself from calling her that whenever I spoke to her.

I am frequently a Sarah to various people. My name is not Sarah but I think perhaps I look like one!

Awww I had a beautiful young woman neighbour who had learning difficulties, she always called me elloookneepinka.
All drawn out vowels. So funny cos I'm called sue ---- not really but my name is that short. She has I think moved into assisted living so I rarely see her now. I miss her yelling my "name" down the street.