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Did You Say Your Name Was Blair?

I have some good memories from my job as a customer service representative in an inbound telephone call center. Some of those good memories are of some hilarious conversations I had with customers: After answering a call  with our specified company greeting the customer said, "Did you say your name was Blair?" "No sir, I said it was Glenn." "Oh, okay..., Blair." "No sir, my name is ... Glenn!" "Oh... I was sure you said it was... Blair!... Spell your name for me, please?" "Okay sir. It is Glenn....  G... - L... - E ...- N... - N!" " Oh, I was right. okay, thank you, Blair." For the six years that I worked for that company, many of my colleagues there called me, "Blair." It gave us all a good laugh, and besides I have been called worse: "dude," for example. Call me "Blair" if you would like, just please never call me "dude."  A person'