I realize that I have already dedicated a post to some of the negative feelings that I have towards my name, but The Namesake has made me hyperaware of situations involving my name, thus prompting me to vocalize my rather annoyed opinion. First of all, people are incompetent. While walking through town one day, I noticed my endearingly cool senior band photo resting nonchalantly against the stained wood panels of a window. While at first recoiling with embarrassment, I carefully looked back at the photo, and noticed that it clearly spelled out “NICOLE ZOLLINGER”. Seriously? One factor that I do not understand about my name is why people assume that the spelling is wrong. I understand that people do make mistakes, but if there is an “a” on the end, add an “a”. It is that simple. Another incident that happened this week occurred at gymnastics. After being threatened with push-ups for not knowing all of the girl’s names, a frantic scramble erupted, with people scurrying around to uncover the names of everyone. After a girl asked my name, I promptly replied “Nicola”. She glanced at me once, saying “Okay, Nicole,” and swiftly left to learn more names. The question I have to ask myself is: why would I say my own name wrong? A final occurrence that happened this week took place in one of my classes, when the teacher called me “Nicole-a”. I have had this teacher all semester, and have repeated my name to them many times, so it infuriates me when they act with such incompetence. Of course, I know I may be a bit hypocritical, for I make mistakes as well, and not everyone can be perfect, but such incidences that illustrate individual’s sincere ignorance deeply bother me.
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