India
I had some matters which came up over the week whilst I was at reservist which needed attention, and it's bad but I'm the kinda person who works much better when I get to highlight and scribble stuff on the printed documents / emails as compared to looking at it on a computer screen...
Which all meant that I had to come back to the office... I drove here, only to realise that they had locked the front entrance, i.e. the lock at the bottom of the door, in addition to the cardkey access system... I hadn't brought my keys with me, and was cursing and swearing when I drove all the way home to dig up the key... luckily I wasn't able to reach my office manager on the phone when I tried to call her on the way down the lift, for I would likely have raised my voice if I had gotten the chance to speak to her...
Anyways, when I came back to the office after having gotten the key, the new security guard asked me to tell her my name and NRIC number... having spent a week at reservist, it was very natural to say alphabets by their international "codewords", e.g. "alpha" for A, "echo" for E, etc. And since NRIC number ends with "I", I said "[blah blah blah] India"... she looked up and gave me a death glare.... She was an Indian, and must have thought that I was making fun of her..
ooops.. :D
Which all meant that I had to come back to the office... I drove here, only to realise that they had locked the front entrance, i.e. the lock at the bottom of the door, in addition to the cardkey access system... I hadn't brought my keys with me, and was cursing and swearing when I drove all the way home to dig up the key... luckily I wasn't able to reach my office manager on the phone when I tried to call her on the way down the lift, for I would likely have raised my voice if I had gotten the chance to speak to her...
Anyways, when I came back to the office after having gotten the key, the new security guard asked me to tell her my name and NRIC number... having spent a week at reservist, it was very natural to say alphabets by their international "codewords", e.g. "alpha" for A, "echo" for E, etc. And since NRIC number ends with "I", I said "[blah blah blah] India"... she looked up and gave me a death glare.... She was an Indian, and must have thought that I was making fun of her..
ooops.. :D
posted by Woof! at 3:34 PM
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I do the same too, whenever I need to spell my name out to someone over the phone. The problem sometimes is that it confuses the person on the line even more.
Let's say my surname is "LIM"
LCN : "My family name is Lim. That's LIMA INDIA MIKE ..."
Other person : "Er ... your name is Mike ? What is your family name, sir ?"
Things might go wrong even if I just spell out the alphabets ...
LCN : "... Lim, that's El-Aye-Emm. Emm for Mary ..."
Other person : "Your name is Mary ?"
I've also tried using country/city names, so LIM would be London-India-Malaysia. But then some people don't know how the country names are spelt in the first place ... ...
my surname is foo. my dad prefers using his han yu pin yin which is fu.
so once he booked a hotel and the person on the phone was like, your family name please. fu my dad said.
spelling?
instead of doing the france and Ukraine thingy.
he said, "F U."
lucky enough the guy on the phone didn't reply a "f u too."
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