I Can't Win...

I went to *bucks today to meet a friend. If you've ever read this post, then you know that people never hear my name properly and call me all different kinds of things. I will forever be bewildered by this. So when the dude asked for my name, I said Snoopy. The dude looked at me like I had three heads. "What?" He said. "SNOOPY." I said. I got a bewildered "Oh." Once I got my drink my friend looked at it and asked what it said. "Snoopy" I said. "Uh, Colleen that's not Snoopy." I turned the cup around and looked at it. It said "STUPI". What is wrong with people!!! Am I wrong? Is Snoopy a hard word to understand? I can't believe that somebody came up with Stupi. As in what, Stupid?

Maybe I need to come up with something else because I think all the young adults in the Northwest are hearing impaired from their blazing iPods.

ARUGH!

Snoopy

I'm not sure why but for some reason people have always had a problem hearing and understanding my name. This has always been very frustrating as this has continued to happen throughout my whole life. When introducing myself to people or giving people my name over the phone or ordering a drink the conversations tend to go like this. "Hi, my name's Colleen."
"It's nice to meet you Pauline."
"No it's Colleen."
"Holly?"
"No, Colleen with a C." And I motion a C with my hand."
"Oh, Connie!" They say.
At this point, I unfortunately tend to sound overly forceful and loud when I repeat for the fourth time, No! It's COLLEEN!" At which point I usually end up embarrassing the poor soul, which makes for a very bad first impression.

It is for this reason when ordering my favorite coffee drinks and they ask for my name, I say "Just call me Snoopy."