When I am asked to give my name at a restaurant – either to get a table or to later claim my food – I usually give my middle name:<\/p>\n
Wade<\/p>\n
It’s not exactly a common name – more so as a last name – but it’s also not that uncommon<\/em>. Short, easy to type and say – and since I used to go by Wade when I was younger, hearing someone say it gets my attention.<\/p>\n And it maybe throws off some data points if someone is tracking me. Just saying.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, as simple as the name is, people still somehow mess it up. This usually shows on the receipt – sometimes, I’m:<\/p>\n WAYDE<\/p>\n What? Is that really a name? Looks like it should be pronounced Even when they ask me to spell it, that can go awry too. Today, at Wendy’s, I was W-A-D-E:<\/p>\n WADD<\/p>\n Yeah, not one of my finer moments.<\/p>\n I guess it’s not really a big deal – not like they got this wrong on my diploma or birth certificate – but… still…<\/p>\n We are not our names. We are something else that wears a name like a jacket or a pair of shoes.<\/p>\n And for a little while today, I was wearing WADD.<\/p>\n The burger tasted the same no matter how my name was spelled and I guess that’s what counts. The fries were good too.<\/p>\n And then it was back to work and back to Anthony. \u00a0Can’t imagine how badly that one could get mangled. \u00a0All those letters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I am asked to give my name at a restaurant – either to get a table or to later claim my food – I usually give my middle name: Wade It’s not exactly a common name – more so as a last name – but it’s also not that uncommon. Short, easy to type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWaaaaaade.<\/p>\n