You Think You Know a Guy

Actually, I DO know a guy. The specific guy being Hick. So his latest shenanigan should not surprise me at all. I should have known this would happen. Perhaps my title should be, 

"You Think a Guy Knows You."

Hick went to the license office on the day after he got his new used trailer. He wanted to get the license and title squared away. He put the title in both our names. That's a common practice for married people, you know. The title came in the mail on Saturday. I was shocked to see that my name was not spelled correctly.

You'd think that a guy would know his wife's name after 36 years of marriage. But if that guy was Hick, and his wife was Val, you'd be wrong!

It's not like we were just introduced. My name is on the mail that Hick picks up every day. It's on the papers numerous times when we have a closing for buying and selling properties. Right there under Hick's name, on page after page. How can I be so insignificant that Hick doesn't know my name???

"Uh. This title isn't legal. My name is spelled wrong. That's not my legal name. If something happens to you, I don't have ID to show that I am the person who owns this trailer."

"What? That's not your name?"

"No. It's spelled wrong."

"Well, the girl put it on there. I just told her your name."

"Are you not capable of filling out paperwork to get a title? And if she was typing it on a computer for you, didn't she ask you how to spell it? Office people always ask me over the phone, or when I go there. Because my name is spelled a lot of ways."

"No. She just put it on there."

My real name has a variety of spellings. A dozen or more are common. Hick's real name has even more variations. Yet I always manage to spell his correctly. It's not like I'm some superhuman braniac (well, except for being a VALedictorian, of course). Is it really that hard to learn your spouse's name? Hick has had plenty of time!

I guess Hick will just have to take time out of his busy schedule, and go apply for a new title. Which I think he should pay for out of HIS money, heh, heh! Since it was his mistake. No matter how much he wants to blame a minimum wage worker.

To be safe, I should probably print it on an index card, and pin it to Hick's shirt...