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Speak
clearly in case they can't hear clearly
03/23/2008 08:25 PM
We recently completed the
basement for Jon and Joette Nesladek and as I was working on payroll I had to
laugh as one unsuspecting soul listed the job site as the residence of Ned
Sladek. I shared this with Jon's brother, Mark Nesladek, Friday afternoon in the
office and of course, it got us all remember-
ing instances such as that. Mark told of the time they had called in an order
for fast food and when they went to pick it up, there was no order for Joe
Nesladek. However, when they figured it out, they did have an order for Jonas
Audik.
We had friends in Ely, Nev. who had a son named Joseph
Lawrence. One day as they were sitting
around talking about names, he questioned his parents' reasoning for giving him
a girl's name. They
were so surprised that he thought he had a girl's name. When they asked him
where he had gotten
that idea he said because Florence is a girl's name ... He thought his name was
Joseph Florence!
Ed, while working as a derrick hand on a drilling rig,
was applying for insurance one day and the
agent asked what he did on the rig. He told him he was a derrick hand the agent
asked him to repeat it a
couple of times, then wrote it down. Then we got the insurance policy. Ed was
listed as a dairy can!
Or there was the time I was trying to give my name over
the phone. I seem to have a hard time getting anyone to understand the word
"Speck" over the phone. One day, when we lived in Utah, I was attempting to
order something over the phone and we went through this "Beck?", "no, Speck,"
"Oh, Peck," "no, SPECK", "oh STECK?" thing. Finally, in disgust, I said, "Speck
as in Fly." "Oh," he says ...
"Fleck." So, we settled on Fleck. And the list goes on ... You probably
have your own story to tell.
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