Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2012-12-01 11:56 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2012-12-01 11:56 pm
A conversation with a white, married-to-a-woman, technical man in the 35-45 age bracket, about names
So I'd been having a great time talking to this guy's wife, who looks like the Bloggess (short, perky, cute), and then he comes over and joins the conversation.
Him: "What's your name?"
Me: *indicates name badge that all party attendees are wearing* "Azz."
Him: "What's that short for?"
Me: *indicates username on name badge* "Azure Lunatic."
Him: "But what's your real name?"
Me: "Azz."
(slightly awkward pause, in which I am smiling, sociably and toothily)
Me: "It's not the name I was born with; my parents gave me a perfectly serviceable name that saw me through school and stuff. And now I'm an adult, and I've got my own name."
The conversation moved on to other topics. I was deeply glad that I had gone over the things-I-might-say-in-the-event, because in the actual event, it just fell out of my mouth.
Him: "What's your name?"
Me: *indicates name badge that all party attendees are wearing* "Azz."
Him: "What's that short for?"
Me: *indicates username on name badge* "Azure Lunatic."
Him: "But what's your real name?"
Me: "Azz."
(slightly awkward pause, in which I am smiling, sociably and toothily)
Me: "It's not the name I was born with; my parents gave me a perfectly serviceable name that saw me through school and stuff. And now I'm an adult, and I've got my own name."
The conversation moved on to other topics. I was deeply glad that I had gone over the things-I-might-say-in-the-event, because in the actual event, it just fell out of my mouth.