I didn't know it was such a big deal...

[weirdboy_1]

The answering service that I work at has a client that is giving out free tablet splitters to certain insurance members. The idea is that you order double the strength at half the dosage which in turn saves you money. The company sends out letters letting people know that they can get a free tablet splitter.

However, in order for the system to accept you name, it must match the letter EXACTLY. If your name is Bill & the letter says Billy, than I need Billy. Then I got this reject.

CJ=Crazy Jim
WB=Me!

WB:Thanks for calling to get a free tablet splitter. Can I get your name exactly as it appears on your letter?

CJ:Jim Smith

WB:I'm sorry, that name did not go through, was the letter by some chance addressed to someone else or was a middle init.....

CJ: You know, I'm sick of this! For 5000 years Jim & James have been interchangeable. When I say Jim, I assume someone knows enough for it to be James, this is ridiculous!

WB: Well, sir, the reason I had to ask was....

CJ: No, I thought for sure that someone would know Jim means James, I'm not dealing with this! *click*


What the crap!?!?You're pissed because I had to ask you to clarify your name? Screw you, you crazy loon, you don't need a friggin' tablet splitter, you need a good enema, cause something crawled up your ass and died.

[auntiem]

If it makes you feel any better - people do this to me too, when they are buying non refundable $1000.00 airplane tickets no less.

[bigjimaz]

You can call me Jim, you can call me James, you can call me Jaime, you can call me Jimmy, but you doesn't have to call me Jimbo.

A cookie if you know where this is from.

As a persom whose name is James, I think that everyone knows that Jim is the most common nickname for James. However most of us are smart enough to realize that when someone askes for the name as it appears <wherever> we will give them that name.

Sorry you had to go through this.

[Ill_Used_Heroine]

I can hear and see it in my head, but I caaaaaaaaaaan't remember. Wasn't it like, a tv commercial from the 70s/80s?

[myswtghst]

I *love* people like this. At my work, we have an ALI system like 911 dispatchers have, basically a high-tech caller ID. Yes, most times it will pop your information if you've called from that number before, but I cannot just assume (unless I talk to you on a regular basis and know your voice) that you are the person it says on the screen in front of me. I will ask for your name, whether you like it or not.

Also, just for the record, dispatcher 11 is not your name. Well, unless Frank Zappa is your dad.

[bigjimaz]

I can hear and see it in my head, but I caaaaaaaaaaan't remember. Wasn't it like, a tv commercial from the 70s/80s?

http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2003/...n-call-me.html

Audio File

Comedian Bill Saluga had a bit that he did on TV variety shows. If you watched television in the late 70s you'll remember it. A zoot-suited character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. would appear. If you called him "Johnson," he launched into a tirade:

Ahh, ya doesn't has to call me Johnson! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ... but ya doesn't hafta call me Johnson.

Give that person a choko-chip-n-macaroon cookie!

Please forgive my hijack of your thread, wierdboy_1. And now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

[MinimaMagistra]

I think that everyone knows that Jim is the most common nickname for James.

...I did not know this until painfully recently. And that's because I renewed my childhood crush on Batman and started reading the comics. And thought for the first couple days that SOMEBODY was messing up big time, 'cause sometimes Commissioner Gordon was called "James" and sometimes "Jim". I never knew.

[South Texan]

CJ: You know, I'm sick of this! For 5000 years Jim & James have been interchangeable. When I say Jim, I assume someone knows enough for it to be James, this is ridiculous!

Sorry, Mr. James A-hole, but I went to school with a guy named Jim. That was the ACTUAL name on his birth certificate. Not James. JIM.

He got very tired of people always assuming his "real" name was James and writing that on his official records.

I also have known a Beau who blew up if people called him Beauregard as his name simply was Beau, and a Kim who hated it that people assumed she really was Kimberly.

Should we assume Jack really is Jackson? Or might it be short for John or Jonathan?

[draftermatt]

My cousin is Katie, that's it. Not Katelyn, etc.

My name is Matthew, but I go by Matt (obviously). Some people call me Matty. But when something official asks for my name, I use Matthew. In fact I get mad sometimes when people assume I go by Matt when I give them Matthew.

[Bloodsoul]

My father and grandfather are both a James, yet one is better known as Jay and the other Jack. *shrugs*

[EmiOfBrie]

I've had people try to call me "Emily" -- for the record, it's legally just "Emi", no more, no less

[Emrld]

my sisters first name is Kimber middle name Leigh . . . .her daughter Emma middle name Leigh.
I have a really common girls first name that has at least 5 different known nick names for it . . . and sometimes I use an abbreviated version and sometimes the full . . .but go with what I tell you my name is - don't just chose a name that you like

[Imogene]

It took me way too long to figure out what the hell a 'Table Splitter' is...

[weirdboy_1]

It took me way too long to figure out what the hell a 'Table Splitter' is...

Lol-you're not the first one.

And for what it's worth, considering these pieces of crap are free, they're totally not worth the crap we go through to get them out. Senile old cooks.

[morgana]

[QUOTE=South Texan;173998]Sorry, Mr. James A-hole, but I went to school with a guy named Jim. That was the ACTUAL name on his birth certificate. Not James. JIM.

He got very tired of people always assuming his "real" name was James and writing that on his official records.

QUOTE]

Absolutely. I used to date a guy whose birth-certificate name was Jimmie. He prefered Jim, but his name was NOT James.