Namer's Remorse!

[sas85]

HEAPS of people use their middle names instead of their first names - I knew my best friend's name was that way due to adverse family reaction to her first name when she was born, but I didn't realize how common it was until I married my husband who is a tax accountant and started dealing with all these people's tax records, especially quite a few middle-aged family friends, they had these other first names I'd never heard of and were all using their middle name, though I can fully understand why you'd change some of them. Some of them were too foreign for their liking now that Aussie and one of our old church friends REAL first name is William - not funny on its own, but his last name is **** so if he'd gone with that he could have been called Willy **** BA HA HA HA!

I think it's INSANE to legally change a childs name though, call them a nick name or their middle name but to legally change it does sound like such an American thing to do

PS - I just looked at this and it's totally edited out our friends last name I guess in case I was using it as a swear word, but hey, people use it as an abbreviation for Richard all the time so I can't believe it's edited out.