What is the strangest name someone told you they named their child?”
While in college I did customer service for a satellite radio company. A man called one day, and per protocol I asked his name. He hesitantly said, “Try searching for ’O’” so I did, and of course only about a billion names with “O” came up and none with just the initial. Next I heard him kind of take a breath and then say, “Try ’Oat’” I swear I could almost hear him clench his teeth as though he was preparing for having to explain something for the millionth time. I did find it under Oat. He seemed so grateful I didn’t say anything about his name that he actually relaxed and opened up a little, joking that he was afraid he was going to have to give his full name, and then said his real first name was “Oatfield.” There were also no less than two “James Bond” entries in the database as well. I learned that when one of them called me, and he had much the same hardening to his voice when I asked his name. I feel sorry for people with such awful names. What were these parents thinking?? Eve
