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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 months ago

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

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Cartwright? Cartwright?

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago

in france that's very standard

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months 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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago
[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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 2 months 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

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

The same happens with me all the time

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