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 !"

😳