All the politicians like tirinian best

[firstfrost]

I think I just blew off the mayor of Somerville. For some reason I find this somewhat more embarassing than blowing off the standard political telemarketers. But it took a minute or two after evading the call for his entire spiel to finish registering what he had said, and I had become vaguely disgruntled that he asked if I was tirinian's kid (or wife, but that's slightly less cause for disgruntlement).

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[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Offensive is too strong. I seem to find it vaguely irritatinng, the same way I do when someone answers my email with email of their own which starts "Dear Linda". A feeling of "You could do better than that - you're not even trying, are you?"

[twe.livejournal.com]

"Dear Linda" is worse than "Are you his child?" I think. Telephone voices are confusing sometimes.

(But on "Dear Linda," or in my case "Dear Kathy," I support you wholeheartenly. Gah.)

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

My favorites are the ones who address me as "Annette" or "Adrian".

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I think irritation is reasonable--you're right, they're just not trying very hard. If I answered the company phone at my last job, a number of people would assume that I was our office manager, despite her being British and having a speaking voice that's about an octave higher than mine.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Though, for whatever reason, I think it's funny instead of irritating when people ask me if I'm Jacob (the other person at the Accounts number). Perhaps because that's gone past "not trying" and into "hapless".