To think DH needs to tell his barber his real name?

[ReligiousEel]

DH has been using the same barber for more than a decade. He goes about once a month. They chat when he’s there, about football, families, holidays, the usual stuff. We once bumped into the barber in the supermarket and said hello and had a very brief chat.

All fairly normal. Except the barber thinks DH is called Chris. He’s not called Chris, not even close.

I asked DH why the barber thinks he’s called Chris and he doesn’t know. He just knows at one of their early appointments the barber called him Chris and he didn’t correct him, as he didn’t think it was important. Now, more than a decade later, he’s still calling him Chris.

I suggested to DH that he tell him his actual name but he refused. He said it didn’t matter, he’s just the bloke who cuts his hair, and the ship has sailed - he’s just going to have to be Chris to the barber forever.

AIBU to think he should tell him?

Called our friendly corner shop owner Charlie for years. Then found out he was called Dave!He never bothered to correct me. Saving my blushes I presume!Honestly it is no big deal. Your DH is right.

Reminds me of the music teacher we had at my grammar school, very many years ago, who - without exception - called every boy "George" and every girl "Mathilda". Very odd in many ways, but I have him to thank for a sound basic knowledge of dates and styles of composers from medieval through classical to romantic and early modern 20th century.

Maybe he fantasies he's James Bond or another 00.
Get him a shoulder holster for his birthday, he can keep his mobile in it!

Margaret was always Peg or Peggy.

My gran was the product of an unmarried couple. She was born in the 1920s. Her mum gave her a name. But soon after she was born, her mum & dad married. My Great Grandfather was a b@stard to GGran according to my mum, a right piece of work.I assume GGran had to marry the father of her baby because those were the times she lived in. Anyway he didn't like Gran"s name and changed it, but not officially. My Gran took that name into adulthood. She needed to apply for a passport at some point and asked her imum for her birth certificate, but her mum wouldn't hand it over. So Gran got a copy from the registry office and found out the truth. (By then GGrandad was long gone, died of lung cancer).

I don't know what happened after that but Gran got married under the name her Dad gave her so she must have decided to change it, officially.

My grandfather was a very good kind man and my Gran has a happy life with him, so there was a happy ending. GGran lived into ger nineties, so had many happy years without GGrandad.

Ha this made me laugh op. Our old next door neighbour called my dp Toby for 11 years. His name sounds nothing like Toby! I referred to dp as his actual name when talking to the neighbours multiple times over the years but Toby just stuck. We’ve moved now and I call him Toby every now and then as I miss our neighbours! Cracking older couple felt so safe with them next door when dp worked away.

If anyone ever gets my name wrong they call me Wendy. I have literally no idea why, but it’s happened about half a dozen times! The first person that did about 15 years ago I asked them why Wendy and all she could come up with is that I must look like a Wendy🤣

My name is nothing like Wendy!

This is hilarious 😂 What the hell are you worried about?

😂 brilliant.

Weird.

Dave 😂

There used to be a tradition of boys with the surname Clark, being nicknamed ‘Nobby’. Somehow I don’t think anyone would use that now!

Re Chalky, I still have a children’s book entitled that, published in the 50s - the main character’s surname was White. Nobody else ever seems to have heard of it, but it’s a cracking read - I still return to it now and then.