CALLING SOMEONE BY THE WRONG NAME

On the website Fark.com, somebody posted this question, looking for advice: “I’ve been calling this guy named Brian, ‘Mike’ for over a year. He has never corrected me and I don’t know how to correct at this point.” Some of the responses:
– Call everyone Mike when he’s around.
– Give him a new name every day.
– Change your name to Mike or just move away.
– Start calling him Steve. When he acts confused, say you’ve been calling him by the wrong name all year and it’s time for a new wrong name.
– You’re not in junior high school any more. Talk to him, fess up that you got off on the wrong foot, but part of this is on him for never correcting you.
– Just start calling him Chief or Bub or Boss and if he complains ask what you should be calling him.
– Seek him out. “You son of a bitch! Somehow I got your name wrong when we met, and you’ve let me call you MIKE for all this time? God I feel stupid! Why didn’t you say anything???” Laugh, improve, move on.
– Called a Navy crewmate of mine John for almost a year. One day he called me John and I looked at him and said “I’m not John,” and he said “Me neither.” We called each other John from that day on.
– Go, “Hey Mike, do you mind if I call you Brian? You seem more like a Brian.”
* At least this guy didn’t have a college professor who called him “Dickweed” for two semesters. I hated that.
* This happened to me, but I got so far into calling him by the wrong name, I ended up just legally changing my son’s name.
* Lately I just call every new person I meet “amigo.” If the world’s not going to wear nametags, that’s not my fault.
* This is like the old joke: I asked my grandpa, “After 65 years you still call grandma ‘darling,’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘honey.’ What’s the secret?” Grandpa says, “I forgot her name 10 years ago and I’m scared to ask.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you been calling someone by the wrong name? What did you do?