Have you ever gotten someone’s name really wrong…

and for some reason they never corrected you ?

When I was about 20, after college I was taking graduate classes and met an older student, a German fellow, whose name I thought was "Horse".

Strange, but okay. So I called him "Horse", and he’d smile, but he’d always answer.

So one of our classmates, also older, took me aside one day and asked,

"Why do you keep calling that man "Horse" ?

"Isn’t that his name ?" I asked.

"No ! It’s [b]Horst[/b] !" she said.

Mortified, I asked, "Why didn’t he say anything ?"

She chuckled, "You’re a kid, he probably thought it was cute."

I thanked her for letting me know.

"No problem," she replied.
"Some of us were wondering if maybe you’d
found out something about the man we didn’t know !"

😳

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ChiefJustWalks · 26-30

Lol I actually have a very similar story.

I had a math teacher in high school who repeatedly asked me what my name was every day for weeks. He never remembered. One day I was kinda tired of it & spit out a fake name when he asked me as a joke since he wasn't gonna remember anyway.

For some reason, that's the day he finally remembered 😂 but I didn't correct him because I thought it was hilarious. He called me Oscar every day for many months until one day another student asked why he kept calling me that. He swore it was my name while she argued that it wasn't & I wouldn't confirm nor deny it 😂

So he went back to his roster, started going through everything & came back to apologize & ask why I never corrected him.

Btw was that a horse cock joke at the end? 😮