To have laughed

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AIBU to have laughed at this and now be telling you?

I've spent the morning with my sister and while I was there she had to call and chase something up, they asked her for her order number and she read it out to them starting with S for Sea. That made me laugh so I walked out of the room so I didn't distract her, she gave me a dirty look. I walked back in after composing myself to hear her arguing about the order number being wrong, apparently it was too many digits. So the man on the other end of the phone read it back to her "S4C...." which started me off again looks like it wasn't just me that heard it that way! The S was the only letter in it as well so he couldn't have realised from her saying F for frog or whatever

Anyway, she is in a huff with me and the useless member of staff who works for that company, WIBU for telling her to lighten up when she was moaning about it?

Does anyone else have any S for Sea type mistakes they have made or heard someone else make? I could do with some more laughing

I have laughed out loud at several of these! Sadly my name and address are easy to spell so I have nothing to add.

I had a friend who worked for an insurance company and needed to call her one day. I live in a town where local dialect can completely override grammar and I was young and lazy.
Guy answers the phone:

"Can I speak to Claire please?"
"yep, who's calling"
"It's Freda tell her"
"Claire, Freda Teller is on the phone for you"

I now make a concerted effort to speak properly on the phone.

Similar to Freda Teller:

I'm not anonymous on here and I can't think of a similar name this would work for, so I need to tell you my surname - it's Stevens. And I'm always asked 'is that Stevens with a V or a PH?'. So once I had to phone a company to order a catalogue or something and gave my name as 'Maureen (for the sake of this thread) Stevens' and added 'with a V'.

So the letter/catalogue arrived addressed to Ms Maureen Stephens-Withervee. It still makes me chuckle 30 years later.

My mum lives in Surrey. When giving her address once on the phone she was asked county? Replied Surrey, county? Surrey county? Surrey I live in Surrey!!
Person on the phone thought she was saying sorry!

This will never not be funny

Reminds me of the Michael McIntyre sketch - "G for Gnome, K for Knight.."

Ffw to 06.55 although this is a bit different

m.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQ3-vkOM44

Guy in my old office used to say N for Nipples. He was actually saying Naples but had the strongest Italian accent! He was on sales so he said it many times a day!

Also, I don't get the octopus one?

My Irish surname ends in "he" but when spelling it out for someone in the UK I get things addressed to my surname but ending in "ag"

I work in travel and have had G for Gnome. . . . and W for willy!

I have an "R" in my surname which in Ireland is pronounced OR.

All I can say is TG for the phonetic alphabet because otherwise I'd kill.

Taking a telephone order one day, the customer gave his initial as 'D'. I said is that d for dog?

No he said, my names Darren.

I've laughed so much at this thread.

Darren 😂.

How odd, I literally have just said exactly the same thing to the estate agent, he thankfully took a moment and said "S for sugar?" but I was mentally berating myself for saying something so silly!

Amused that is what I call my OH because he's stephen with a ph! Showed him that meme & he loved it lol

You've reminded me of my first job in a small chemist - lady came in for bed prescription. Mrs Enright. Couldn't find it and asked her to come back later as it hadn't been done yet.

Dawned on me later she meant Mrs N Wright and yes her prescription had been done! Honestly though I repeated it several time she could have enunciated a little more clearly...

Haha! Thanks for the laughs. Years ago I had a job that involved listening to messages from the answering machine & taking orders. After a day of my name is David Smith D-A-V-I-D .... I would go home & start thinking & speaking like that.

My middle name begins with an S and when I tell my email address to someone I always clarify S for Sierra (as S and F on the phone sound so similar), I always get comments on how lovely my middle name is

JonSnowsWhore

Sadly my DH is Steven but I still call him Phteven now and then

*Mr Clark Withernee (instead of Clarke ).

Mark Withersea (rather than Marc Surname)*

Weeping at these

Damn you amused I just came on to post Phteven. I love him!

Also D for Dog, no my name's Darren

My colleague clarified our postcode by saying "Y for Wankee"!

I had someone say steelily, "That's Seaman WITH AN A"!

I think my 'best' one was 'G for gnome' when on the phone to a colleague. Honestly my mind went blank!

I've had e for x-ray from the car salesman reading me the reg of my new car.

I was giving my work postcode over the phone I said G they said is that G for dog? Me yes if you spell it backwards.