Spelllling difficulties

I just got a letter yesterday, and transport company completely massacred my name. Get how they spelled it: Duarte. That's my new name. What nationality do you think that sounds like? Brook says maybe Spanish. They got 4 letters right but just got creative with two new letters that I never, repeat never, have ever seen in my name before. An 'a' and an 'r'. Everyone always gets messed up on the second 'd' it's true. I think people just can't accept that there are two 'd's in Dudte. It's the place everyone always asks me to repeat the letter--the second 'd'. Now I just don't even spell it, I use the military form of 'D' for delta. Still people keep stumbling over it. Did you say "d"? they ask incredulously (as if two d's in one last name is far too many). I thought life would be simpler with Johnson but I still get a lot of people who say... "Now is that with a J...?" ....huh?! How else would Johnson be? Outside of Smith and Lee it's about the easiest and most common name out there. I have no patience for people who are confused with Johnson. I thought taking Johnson would relieve the spelling difficulties of Dudte.. that I would be living in the easy life of name spelling. But no! Johnson confuses more people than you think. At least with Dudte, you expect people to be confused. So if you have an awkward name, be thankful for it--make people work for it.

Speaking of spelling, I passed by the new Hamburger and Chawarma place in town (we're downright cosmopolitan here in Tamba now) yesterday and since I had my camera out for Pig Lady yesterday (see entry below), and look what I stumbled upon. It's the new HUMBURGER place. That's so funny! It's even more funny because everywhere else in the country it's spelled correctly as Hamburger. Not in Tamba. It's humburger. That's one big hum-dinger-burger. I wonder if they have humburger with cheese.... next time I'm ordered a humburger I'll ask.