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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 2 days ago

yup, my lineage ends with me. goodbye awful family name that i have to spell every time i visit a restaurant

Here's a little secret I learnt, you can just change your awful family name if you want too :3

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

i'll get married someday and then will change my name, but that's low priority right now

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You know you can give them a fake name. I've known several people who had a go-to name for restaurant reservations or something because their last name was just too complicated or too common. No one's checking ID.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

i started doing that and using my first name, much easier :)

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago

Who's asking for your last name every time you're going to a restaurant?

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Cartwright? Cartwright?

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

in france that's very standard

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago

We used to call each other by the surnames in middle school.

That is very much not standard. Everyone just did it. I didn't even remember to respond to my first name the first few weeks of high school.

That was my experience in most shop environments, you just start getting called by your surname.

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I’ve only seen that for people with similar first names as other people in a school or workplace. Then again, I was born just before the Brayden/Ayden/Mxyzptlkayden generation.

[-] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 6 points 1 day ago
[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Are they checking identification? Why not just say you're Abe Froman to the Maître d'?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You spell your last name at restaurants? First names at a busy Starbucks but…?

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

Isn’t it standard to give your last name for table reservations?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I guess I just don’t go to so many restaurants thst need reservations for it to be a big deal, and I think in the past it’s even been occasionally just a phone number. But fair enough.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

yup where i live it's customary, but also to book anything on the phone or in person, i just hate my last name

The same happens with me all the time

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