Nobody has ever called me Simon

[threemonkeys]

I just got addressed as Paul today. It doesn't happen all that often, but when people get my first name wrong, it is pretty much always to call me Paul. I have nothing against the name, and getting called the wrong name doesn't worry me much, but it is just odd that it is usually the same name. I have a couple of theories.

One idea is that it is just one of those combinations that go together automatically - how else to explain all those David Thompsons or John Smiths. On the other hand, I have never actually met anybody with the name combination in question and I cant see any particular family history of it - lots of Richards, Peters and Grenvilles but no Pauls. Although our mother informed us that my sister would have been called Paul if she had turned up as a boy.

The other theory is that folk are remembering an old radio/tv series. In today's case, the person in question would have been born long after the series was well and truly over.

Comments

[callie]

Susan or Gemma. Nope, no idea why.

[threemonkeys]

Nope, can't think of a reason either.